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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... Arthur's quest in particular toward the end , since Arthur is " the perfection " of all the other knights and the ... King Arthur and King Arthur and the Emperor Lucius , Arthur dominates the action , first as a newly crowned young ruler ...
... Arthur's quest in particular toward the end , since Arthur is " the perfection " of all the other knights and the ... King Arthur and King Arthur and the Emperor Lucius , Arthur dominates the action , first as a newly crowned young ruler ...
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... Arthur to Malory's King Arthur . In the Letter to Raleigh Spenser indicates his twofold aim in portraying Arthur : to represent " a good gouernour and a vertuous man . ” Having announced this dual purpose , he projects a shift in ...
... Arthur to Malory's King Arthur . In the Letter to Raleigh Spenser indicates his twofold aim in portraying Arthur : to represent " a good gouernour and a vertuous man . ” Having announced this dual purpose , he projects a shift in ...
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... Arthur's Continental exploits ( Com . 1368 ) . Nellie Slayton Aurner has seen even more extensive historically ... King Arthur who actually conquers Rome . While browsing through the ancient tomes in the library of Alma's castle , Arthur ...
... Arthur's Continental exploits ( Com . 1368 ) . Nellie Slayton Aurner has seen even more extensive historically ... King Arthur who actually conquers Rome . While browsing through the ancient tomes in the library of Alma's castle , Arthur ...
Contents
List of Abbreviations | 9 |
Introduction | 17 |
Thematic Similarities | 23 |
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