Refashioning "knights and Ladies Gentle Deeds": The Intertextuality of Spenser's Faerie Queene and Malory's Morte DarthurRefashioning "Knights and Ladies Gentle Deeds" seeks to offer a more determinate sense than traditional source study of just how much Spenser's Faerie Queene owed to Malory's Morte Darthur. Once widespread, the assumption of Spenser's debt to Malory came under enough heavy fire in the first half of this century to render it shunned. Until now, the only book-length study on the topic was Prof. Marie Walther's nineteenth-century German inaugural dissertation, Malory's Einfluss auf Spenser's Faerie Queene, which has never been translated into English. Though the question has received renewed interest in several recent essays by A. Kent Hieatt, the disproportionately brief entry on Malory in the Spenser Encyclopedia demonstrates how much is yet to be learned about the relationship between these two dominant works of adjacent centuries. |
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... Antonia's washerwomen companions watched her sympathet- ically , and every now and then , in the midst of loud conversa- tions and arguments , there was a brief exchange in a low voice , a dialogue punctuated by exclamations of ...
... Antonia's washerwomen companions watched her sympathet- ically , and every now and then , in the midst of loud conversa- tions and arguments , there was a brief exchange in a low voice , a dialogue punctuated by exclamations of ...
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... Antonia's fate began to instill holy terror when rumors spread that her husband had sworn to get even with her the day he was released for having denounced him . The poor creature was pregnant , and the murderer warned her that , upon ...
... Antonia's fate began to instill holy terror when rumors spread that her husband had sworn to get even with her the day he was released for having denounced him . The poor creature was pregnant , and the murderer warned her that , upon ...
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... Antonia was beginning to form a confused , mysterious concept , was , to be sure , a terrible force , but a protective one , an iron hand that would sustain her on the brink of an abyss . So it was that her unbounded fears were joined ...
... Antonia was beginning to form a confused , mysterious concept , was , to be sure , a terrible force , but a protective one , an iron hand that would sustain her on the brink of an abyss . So it was that her unbounded fears were joined ...
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... Antonia decided to try something , and before the gathering broke she agreed to consult a legal expert to see what he coun- seled . When Antonia returned from the consultation , paler than usual , women without their headscarves came ...
... Antonia decided to try something , and before the gathering broke she agreed to consult a legal expert to see what he coun- seled . When Antonia returned from the consultation , paler than usual , women without their headscarves came ...
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... Antonia remembered that the injured woman's lips were white , and it seemed as if she could see the congealed blood at the foot of the cot . She locked herself in her house and spent the time sitting in a small chair next to the hearth ...
... Antonia remembered that the injured woman's lips were white , and it seemed as if she could see the congealed blood at the foot of the cot . She locked herself in her house and spent the time sitting in a small chair next to the hearth ...
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Page 13 - Words and passages marked with an asterisk (*) in the text are explained in the Notes at the back of the book.
Page 57 - The most profound horror, the most frightful rage, powerful enough to freeze his will and restrain his arm when they ought to have driven him to pounce like the avenging hand of God, prevented him from tearing into pieces on the very spot the infamous gravedigger,
Page 59 - If dignity and decency don't depend on the will of the person in question, and can be taken away like that ... as I've taken them, then I admit that I have unquestionably dishonored the inhabitants of Arfe.
Page 92 - I think I was in love with him. The only thing I regretted was not being able to
Page 57 - Was it a trick of the imagination? Was it hallucination brought on by suffering? He would swear that he heard a sound behind the clump of trees,
Page 57 - Nobody escaped the posthumous slap in the face from those contemptible fingers—the outrage that is neither avoided nor punished, the stain that isn't washed away
Page 56 - a dread, a coldness, a feverish chill, a sensation that made his heart pound and brought a lump to his throat and paralyzed his legs.
Page 56 - grave. Would he dare to cover the distance and enter the mysterious corner where darkness was intensified and religious terror hovered in attendance?
Page 57 - that decent, Christian, law-abiding town, jealous of a good name more than esteem, that makes of honor a principle and reputation a