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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"chivalric romance"”.
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The Pen and the Pennon: Political and Social Comment Inscribed within Chivalric Romance
Study of the Medieval English romance has burgeoned in recent years, with a focus on the world outside of the texts being central to the resurgence. I offer in this dissertation a reading of four of these works (Athelston, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Sir Cleges, and Sir Gowther) that considers …
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Writing at the Edge of the Empire: The Poetics of Piracy in the Early Modern Atlantic World
… popular consumption, particularly their use of chivalric romance, which they drew on to present "enchanted" histories of the Atlantic world. By representing themselves as chivalric knights-errant, pirate-authors transformed themselves from thieves to gallant knights, they recast their raids as …
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The Rhetorical Strategies of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza
… the mad knight, values lofty ideas idealized in chivalric romance. Conversely, Sancho, the simple squire, values tangible materials he can see and touch in his own life. While the two characters first appear to be contrary in nature, by the journey’s end, as displayed in their speeches, have …