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100 1 $aRovang, Paul R.,$d1957-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95040878
245 10 $aRefashioning "knights and ladies gentle deeds" :$bthe intertextuality of Spenser's Faerie queene and Malory's Morte Darthur /$cPaul R. Rovang.
260 $aMadison, NJ :$bFairleigh Dickinson University Press ;$aLondon ;$aCranbury, NJ :$bAssociated University Presses,$c1996.
263 $a9604
300 $a160 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 148-157) and index.
505 00 $tForeword /$rA. Kent Hieatt --$g1.$t"The Wel-Head Of the History": Thematic Similarities --$g2.$t"For the More Variety of the History": Structural Comparisons --$g3.$t"To Fashion a Gentleman": Chivalry in Malory and Spenser --$g4.$t"Famous by Many Mens Former Workes": The Arthur of Malory and Spenser --$g5.$t"Historiographer" and "Poet Historical": History and Fiction in Malory and Spenser --$g6.$t"A Pleasing Analysis of All": History and Fiction, Part II.
520 $aRefashioning "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.
520 8 $aMarie 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.
520 8 $a.
520 8 $aWhile not neglecting the question of direct borrowings, author Paul Rovang applies a theory of intertextuality to probe how the poet responded to the chivalric romance themes, conventions, materials, and structures which he encountered in the Morte Darthur. Both works are treated not as monoliths, but as links in a network of texts and other cultural phenomena relating to chivalry.
520 8 $aIn this way, a fuller sense is given not only of how vitally connected the two works are, but of how Spenser "refashioned" the transmitted ideals and symbols of Arthurian knighthood for his own age.
600 10 $aSpenser, Edmund,$d1552?-1599.$tFaerie queene.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80165530
600 10 $aMalory, Thomas,$cSir,$dactive 15th century.$tMorte d'Arthur.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81051285
650 0 $aArthurian romances$xAdaptations$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aEpic literature, English$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008119807
650 0 $aMedievalism$zEngland$xHistory$y16th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010101406
650 0 $aArthurian romances$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007101474
650 0 $aKnights and knighthood in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85072694
650 0 $aChivalry in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024507
650 0 $aIntertextuality.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88005212
852 00 $bglx$hPR2358$i.R68 1996