1. Vinaver, Malory, Oxford, 1929, p. 84.

2. Vinaver, The Tale of the Death of King Arthur, p. xii.

3. C. S. Lewis argues that in Malory it is a matter of degree. To anyone who comes to his work fresh from modern literature its polyphonic character will be at first one of the most noticeable things about if (‘The English Prose Morte’ in Essays on Malory, ed. J. A. W. Bennett, Oxford, 1963, pp. 7–28; p. 14).

4. Vinaver, The Tale of the Death of King Arthur, p. xix.

5. Vinaver, ‘Form and meaning in Medieval Romance’, Presidential Address, Modern Humanities Research Association, 1966, p. 17.