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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... 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 , attempts to probe how Spenser ...
... 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 , attempts to probe how Spenser ...
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... sense quite another attitude in Spenser's treatment of the abiogenesis of Belphoebe and Amoret . As with medieval historiography , therefore , Spenser appears to be wryly parodying medieval science - if not the underlying the- ory , at ...
... sense quite another attitude in Spenser's treatment of the abiogenesis of Belphoebe and Amoret . As with medieval historiography , therefore , Spenser appears to be wryly parodying medieval science - if not the underlying the- ory , at ...
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... sense of their transitory nature and of their fulfillment in eternity . The overall effect of this final section is one of epiphany . Gawain and Lancelot are rewarded in a final sense for their knighthood , and the entire history of the ...
... sense of their transitory nature and of their fulfillment in eternity . The overall effect of this final section is one of epiphany . Gawain and Lancelot are rewarded in a final sense for their knighthood , and the entire history of the ...
Contents
List of Abbreviations | 9 |
Introduction | 17 |
Thematic Similarities | 23 |
Copyright | |
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