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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Lancelot"”.
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T.H. White and the matter of Lancelot.
… traditional medieval view of King Arthur and Sir Lancelot, White recreates these two main characters for his time. Arthur becomes a social planner, and Lancelot becomes an ugly, sadistic ill-made knight. White's transformation of these two characters reflects the "modern" preoccupation with the …
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Homiletic Theory and Practice in the Sermons of John Donne and Lancelot Andrewes
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In Summaries and Diagrams: Teaching Prayer and Poetry in Lancelot Andrewes and Edmund Spenser
… printed texts attributed to Edmund Spenser and Lancelot Andrewes. It takes as a starting point the pervasiveness of Ramism at Pembroke College Cambridge during these two writers’ overlapping years spent there as undergraduates, proposing that Ramist ideologies of the short and efficient, the …
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Malory's Lancelot: the Conflicts of Chivalry Based on a Source Study of Malory's Morte D'Arthur
… of his central character, the tragic hero Lancelot. Given an unusual situation over which a victim has no control, this victim Lancelot embodies Malory's own frustrations. By examining the character of Lancelot and Malory's adaptations and additions to his sources we may know more of Malory …
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‘One of the nobelyst knyghtes of the worlde, and most perfitist man’: the role of Bors in Malory’s Morte Darthur.
… mainly by his faith in God or by his loyalty to Lancelot, Malory’s pre-eminent knight and the focus of his text. Bors is a minor character in the Morte until the later part of ‘The Book of Sir Tristram de Lyonesse’ where his role as support to Lancelot becomes prominent and where his spirituality …
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An Almost Threesome: Erotic Love Triangles and Authorial Choice in Malory’s Le Morte D’ Arthur
… Darthur</em>, approaches the narrative of Sir Lancelot with the unwavering attitude that Lancelot must not only sustain the status of Arthur’s most revered knight and truest friend, but also be a true and ideal lover for Guenevere. This deep sense of friendship and comraderie between Lancelot …
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Expanded Universes: Reading French Literature of the Long Thirteenth Century with Twentieth and Twenty-First Century American Comics and Fandom Practices
… a formal analysis of interlace across the Lancelot-Grail, through a close reading of Lancelot’s paintings in Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS français 112, alongside comicbook theorist Scott McCloud’s definition of closures. Chapter 2 explores the changing identity of the hero …
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Madness in Medieval Art and Romance
… of Sicily, and the cycles of Yvain, Tristan, and Lancelot. The onset of madness reflects a moment of psychological trauma, and recovery of sanity portrays symbolically the hero's moral recalibration.
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Faith and Scriptural History in Early Modern Religious Writing
… The writers studied in this thesis—Lancelot Andrewes, Sir Thomas Browne, Henry Vaughan and John Milton—were aware that the history narrated by the Bible had the potential to be misread. Relying on historical evidence when reading scriptural accounts risked making the foundations of …
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"Redefining Gender Through the Arena of the Male Body: The Reception of Thomas's Tristan in the Old French ""Le Chevalier De La Charette"" and the Old Icelandic ""Saga Af Tristram Ok Isodd"
… of masculinity and he uses the experiences of Lancelot to define gender as purely performative. Tristram ok Isodd, on the other hand, models the masculinity of its hero on the gender system in the literary-historic sagas of Icelanders. While maleness in this genre is largely based on …
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The Independent Group's encounters with logical positivism and searches for unity in the 1951 Growth and Form Exhibition
… the exhibition, Aspects of Form, edited by Lancelot Law Whyte and including a wide range of essays by leading scientists of the day, as well as by Konrad Lorenz, Rudolf Arnheim, and Ernst Gombrich. In tracing the discourses of "form" and "unity" to several distinct sources, my study charts …
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Some Sources of Puritan Sabbatarianism
… Commandments delivered by the Anglican Divine, Lancelot Andrewes, at Cambridge. In his discussion of the fourth commandment, he took the disparate views of the sabbatarians and formulated a definitive doctrine of the Puritan sabbath giving it form and substance and, with the Bible, making it the …
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Arthurian mythology in the twentieth century : T.H. White and John Steinbeck's interpretations of Malory's Morte d'Arthur
… Ewain and Marhalt and The Noble Tale of Sir Lancelot, provide a fresh and inventive approach. It is argued that in The Noble Tale of Sir Lancelot, Steinbeck comes to grips with the drama at the heart of the Morte Darthur as he introduces the eternal triangle in which the central characters …
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The religious dimensions of T.S. Eliot's early life, poetry, and thought
… Anglican divines--including, among others Lancelot Andrewes, John Donne, and Hugh Latimer.The conclusion reached is that a large part of the pattern in the carpet of Eliot's mature poetry and thought is woven from the religious elements in his early reading. In short, Eliot's end is very …
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‘Amore Captus:’ Turning Bedtricks in the Arthurian Canon
… The second is the conception of Galahad by Lancelot and Elaine with the assistance of the enchantress Brusen. A comparative analysis of several early and modern interpretations of these two bedtricks shows how the actions and motivations of each character either reflect or subvert expected …
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