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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... episode so far amounts to a comic subversion of chivalry . The poet's sympathetic enhancement of knighthood deconstructs before our eyes , and the action descends from parody and bur- lesque to black humor as Talus ferrets out ...
... episode so far amounts to a comic subversion of chivalry . The poet's sympathetic enhancement of knighthood deconstructs before our eyes , and the action descends from parody and bur- lesque to black humor as Talus ferrets out ...
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... episode's deeply cynical subversion of chivalry , which works against the romance tradition as a whole and against the general treatment of chivalry in the poem . Another episode where Spenser shows what is barbarous and evil to be at ...
... episode's deeply cynical subversion of chivalry , which works against the romance tradition as a whole and against the general treatment of chivalry in the poem . Another episode where Spenser shows what is barbarous and evil to be at ...
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... episode where Lancelot is abducted by four queens , one of whom is Morgan . Since this episode and its sources have already been discussed in the first chapter , we shall not enlarge upon them here . 13 Therefore , although Malory ...
... episode where Lancelot is abducted by four queens , one of whom is Morgan . Since this episode and its sources have already been discussed in the first chapter , we shall not enlarge upon them here . 13 Therefore , although Malory ...
Contents
List of Abbreviations | 9 |
Introduction | 17 |
Thematic Similarities | 23 |
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