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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Page 41
... effect of harmony among them- " unity of atmosphere , " " all - over pattern " 4 - creates a loose " structural principle " : We can compare The Faerie Queene to a page of medieval illumination , which exhibits a harmonious texture ...
... effect of harmony among them- " unity of atmosphere , " " all - over pattern " 4 - creates a loose " structural principle " : We can compare The Faerie Queene to a page of medieval illumination , which exhibits a harmonious texture ...
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... effect by their success in ' making stories out of mere chronicles ' through the operation of ' emplotment . " " 20 Chronicles , rather than developing events according to cause and effect , tend simply to lay them out chronologically ...
... effect by their success in ' making stories out of mere chronicles ' through the operation of ' emplotment . " " 20 Chronicles , rather than developing events according to cause and effect , tend simply to lay them out chronologically ...
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... effect of this slapstick is further to diminish Mark's dignity and to distinguish Tristram's prowess . The humor is neither subtle nor ironic , which may also be said for Malory's few other comic scenes . A further episode of the same ...
... effect of this slapstick is further to diminish Mark's dignity and to distinguish Tristram's prowess . The humor is neither subtle nor ironic , which may also be said for Malory's few other comic scenes . A further episode of the same ...
Contents
List of Abbreviations | 9 |
Introduction | 17 |
Thematic Similarities | 23 |
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