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There and Back Again: A Malorian Wild Man’s Tale
- Arthuriana
- Scriptorium Press
- Volume 27, Number 2, Summer 2017
- pp. 55-72
- 10.1353/art.2017.0012
- Article
- Additional Information
The two wild-man episodes that appear in Malory’s Morte d’Arthur follow the traditional pattern of the medieval nobleman-turned-wild man episode type and serve as Bakhtinian carnival. The wild-man transformation is not permanent, however, and the knights’ reintegration into chivalric society demonstrates the failure of carnival to resolve true conflict.