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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... eyes popping , calling for help . After this scare , more than a year went by and the cleaning lady , dedicated to her humble household employment , enjoyed peace once again . One day , the manservant of the house where she was working ...
... eyes popping , calling for help . After this scare , more than a year went by and the cleaning lady , dedicated to her humble household employment , enjoyed peace once again . One day , the manservant of the house where she was working ...
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... eyes wandered aimlessly over the lather that splashed her face . Who brought the unexpected news to the laundry as Antonia was gathering up her washed and wrung - out clothes and was going to leave ? Did someone concoct the idea for ...
... eyes wandered aimlessly over the lather that splashed her face . Who brought the unexpected news to the laundry as Antonia was gathering up her washed and wrung - out clothes and was going to leave ? Did someone concoct the idea for ...
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... eyes , swelling her heart , because ever since the crime she had dried up , that is , was unable to cry . Now she breathed deeply , free of the nightmare . The hand of Providence was so instrumental in what happened that it didn't occur ...
... eyes , swelling her heart , because ever since the crime she had dried up , that is , was unable to cry . Now she breathed deeply , free of the nightmare . The hand of Providence was so instrumental in what happened that it didn't occur ...
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... eyes . Her rigid body underwent a momentary paraly- sis . Her cold hands let go of the boy , who , terrified , clutched at his mother's skirt . The husband spoke : " You didn't expect me now , did you ? " he murmured in a husky but calm ...
... eyes . Her rigid body underwent a momentary paraly- sis . Her cold hands let go of the boy , who , terrified , clutched at his mother's skirt . The husband spoke : " You didn't expect me now , did you ? " he murmured in a husky but calm ...
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... eyes , and ripped up petticoats . In a corner of the room were heard the stifled sobs of the little boy . And it was the little boy who , screaming frantically , at dawn called the neighbor women who found Antonia in bed , stretched out ...
... eyes , and ripped up petticoats . In a corner of the room were heard the stifled sobs of the little boy . And it was the little boy who , screaming frantically , at dawn called the neighbor women who found Antonia in bed , stretched out ...
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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?
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