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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... give rise to this distinct sense shared by readers ? Obviously , tabulating the debt of direct borrowings does not satisfactorily answer this question , or the matter would have been solved long ago . The present work , therefore ...
... give rise to this distinct sense shared by readers ? Obviously , tabulating the debt of direct borrowings does not satisfactorily answer this question , or the matter would have been solved long ago . The present work , therefore ...
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... give a retro- spective narrative of this time of beginnings - the poem's " wel- head " -after all adventures had been fulfilled . The letter's back- ground sketch for Redcrosse , the fullest given for any of the knights , relates how an ...
... give a retro- spective narrative of this time of beginnings - the poem's " wel- head " -after all adventures had been fulfilled . The letter's back- ground sketch for Redcrosse , the fullest given for any of the knights , relates how an ...
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... give their warn- ings differ noticeably . When Redcrosse approaches Error's den , Una cautions him : " Be well aware ... / Least suddaine mischiefe ye too rash provoke : / . . . . therefore your stroke / Sir knight with- hold , till ...
... give their warn- ings differ noticeably . When Redcrosse approaches Error's den , Una cautions him : " Be well aware ... / Least suddaine mischiefe ye too rash provoke : / . . . . therefore your stroke / Sir knight with- hold , till ...
Contents
List of Abbreviations | 9 |
Introduction | 17 |
Thematic Similarities | 23 |
Copyright | |
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