caa a22 4500 606172270 CHVBK 20210128100727.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11059-014-0264-7 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11059-014-0264-7 Chelebourg Christian Université de Nancy II, Nancy, France aut Un Prince dans le miroir de Merlyn: The Sword in the Stone de T.H. White [Elektronische Daten] [Christian Chelebourg] First published in 1938, and revised 20years later, The Sword in the Stone opens T.H. White's tetralogy of Arthur novels, "The Once and Future King”. In its final version, the novel, conceived in the context of a mounting Nazi threat, takes its cue from an interpretation of Morte Darthur de Malory as an "antidote against war.” Merlin here travels back in time, like the historical novelist, to illuminate the mistakes of the past in the light of the present. His task is an attack against a morally problematic aristocratic imaginary. His burlesque disqualifies chivalrous codes of conduct, which are accused of imposing models of competition that are fatal to peace. Confronted with the bestial brutality of aristocrats, the author confides the task of showing Arthur the road of moral progress to a series of animal fables. By transposing the tragedy he read in Malory in a comic register, White brings his aesthetics in line with an ethics that rejects the ambition of grandeur. His account of Arthur's childhood uses the genre of the mirror for princes as a model, and tries to regenerate the British monarchy, which finally realizes the objective of the Round Table: to establish and safeguard civilization against the reign of power. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, Hungary, 2014 T.H. White nationallicence The Sword in the Stone nationallicence Merlin nationallicence Arthur legend nationallicence Aristocratic imaginary nationallicence Second World War nationallicence Merlyn (Merlin) nationallicence Arthur nationallicence Imaginaire nobiliaire nationallicence Seconde guerre mondiale nationallicence Neohelicon Springer Netherlands 42/1(2015-06-01), 195-207 0324-4652 42:1<195 2015 42 11059 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11059-014-0264-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11059-014-0264-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Chelebourg Christian Université de Nancy II, Nancy, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Neohelicon Springer Netherlands 42/1(2015-06-01), 195-207 0324-4652 42:1<195 2015 42 11059