Tuesday, February 18, 2020

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While reading this text, I mainly found myself focusing on how it compares to its predecessors, it being one of the first mass-printed texts in England. Something I noticed right off the bat is that it reads far more like a novel we would see today than anything that came before it, in a sense that there appeared to be far more emphasis on dialogue than before. As we discussed last class, Geoffrey of Monmouth's Arthur chose to focus heavily on descriptions of battles and often omitted many details in favor of these descriptions. In Le Morte d'Arthur, we saw a much more even spread.

My question now is, why the sudden focus on dialogue? I don't know exactly how the new technology could have promoted this, but clearly there was a shift. I'm curious to know just why that shift occurred.

not really related in any way except for the words new technology, but I liked it



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