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Back To the Future: Malory's Genres
- Arthuriana
- Scriptorium Press
- Volume 7, Number 3, Fall 1997
- pp. 100-123
- 10.1353/art.1997.0006
- Article
- Additional Information
This article reconsiders the narrative categories of Malory's book within the umbrella of 'historia,' arguing that while the reader is invited to take the account seriously as historical, that invitation occurs in a reading culture which requires us to recognize a medieval, rhetorically-derived, genre.