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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... door ? Who's coming ? " Finally , one beautiful sunny morning she shrugged her shoul- ders and , taking a pile of dirty clothes , began to walk toward the laundry . To the solicitous questions that were asked her , she gave slow ...
... door ? Who's coming ? " Finally , one beautiful sunny morning she shrugged her shoul- ders and , taking a pile of dirty clothes , began to walk toward the laundry . To the solicitous questions that were asked her , she gave slow ...
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... door of her ground - floor room stood ajar . Without letting go of the boy's hand , she entered the confined area that served as living room , dining room , and kitchen , and stepped back , startled at seeing the oil lamp lit. A huge ...
... door of her ground - floor room stood ajar . Without letting go of the boy's hand , she entered the confined area that served as living room , dining room , and kitchen , and stepped back , startled at seeing the oil lamp lit. A huge ...
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... door . He cut her off . " Hey , hey ! Where are you going , lady of the house ? " he stressed the words syllable by syllable with his convict's irony . " To stir up the neighborhood , now , at this hour ? Everybody here keep still ...
... door . He cut her off . " Hey , hey ! Where are you going , lady of the house ? " he stressed the words syllable by syllable with his convict's irony . " To stir up the neighborhood , now , at this hour ? Everybody here keep still ...
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... door securely , and then if he wanted to kill her the neighborhood would be awake and would hear her screams . Just that it would probably be impos- sible for her to scream ! She cleared her throat to steady her voice . Her husband ...
... door securely , and then if he wanted to kill her the neighborhood would be awake and would hear her screams . Just that it would probably be impos- sible for her to scream ! She cleared her throat to steady her voice . Her husband ...
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... door where a bloody hide was spread and nailed at the four points . " You won't eat any more chickens , " the servant girl added , threatening the remains of the animal with her fist . This conversation about hunting restored the ...
... door where a bloody hide was spread and nailed at the four points . " You won't eat any more chickens , " the servant girl added , threatening the remains of the animal with her fist . This conversation about hunting restored the ...
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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.
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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?
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