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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... husband . Are we to con- clude that she had a proclivity for blood , torture , cruelty , deprav- ity , desecration , misery , and death ? No , but as Carmen Bravo Villasante suggests , there is a possible explanation for her at ...
... husband . Are we to con- clude that she had a proclivity for blood , torture , cruelty , deprav- ity , desecration , misery , and death ? No , but as Carmen Bravo Villasante suggests , there is a possible explanation for her at ...
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... husband in a quarter outside the city , and that the family got along comfortably thanks to Antonia's assiduous work and the money saved by the old woman in her former occupation as secondhand dealer , peddler , and money- lender . No ...
... husband in a quarter outside the city , and that the family got along comfortably thanks to Antonia's assiduous work and the money saved by the old woman in her former occupation as secondhand dealer , peddler , and money- lender . No ...
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... 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 his return , she was as good as dead . When Antonia's son was born she ...
... 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 his return , she was as good as dead . When Antonia's son was born she ...
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... husband had been granted a pardon , she didn't utter a word ; the neighbor women saw her sitting on the doorsill , her hands clasped to- gether , her head drooping over her chest , while the little boy , raising his pitiful and sickly ...
... husband had been granted a pardon , she didn't utter a word ; the neighbor women saw her sitting on the doorsill , her hands clasped to- gether , her head drooping over her chest , while the little boy , raising his pitiful and sickly ...
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... husband was mistreating me . " " Good Lord ! Well , didn't that brute kill your mother ? Wasn't that mistreatment ? Huh ? And doesn't the whole world know that he's threatened to kill you too ? " " But since nobody heard him say it ...
... husband was mistreating me . " " Good Lord ! Well , didn't that brute kill your mother ? Wasn't that mistreatment ? Huh ? And doesn't the whole world know that he's threatened to kill you too ? " " But since nobody heard him say it ...
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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