| dc.contributor.advisor | Boyd, Beverly | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Hardin, Richard | |
| dc.contributor.author | Diamond, Geneva | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2009-05-08T22:24:34Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2009-05-08T22:24:34Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2008-01-01 | |
| dc.date.submitted | 2008 | |
| dc.identifier.other | http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:10095 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/4533 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Abstract This dissertation traces the literary influences that affect the Kyng Alisaunder from their origination in the decades following Alexander the Great's 323 BCE death to their expression in the fourteenth-century CE Middle English romance. This work examines the Middle English author's mediation of the intertextual influences of its immediate sources and the ancestral texts from which medieval Alexander literature descends. The Kyng Alisaunder resists the drift towards fantasy embraced by the overall literary Alexander tradition by grounding its narrative in human agency and in a particularized, concrete world. | |
| dc.format.extent | pages | |
| dc.language.iso | EN | |
| dc.publisher | University of Kansas | |
| dc.rights | This item is protected by copyright and unless otherwise specified the copyright of this thesis/dissertation is held by the author. | |
| dc.subject | Medieval literature | |
| dc.subject | Classical literature | |
| dc.subject | Alexander romance | |
| dc.subject | Middle english romance | |
| dc.title | Literary Influences and Adaptation in the Middle English Kyng Alisaunder | |
| dc.type | Dissertation | |
| dc.contributor.cmtemember | Gordon, Pamela | |
| dc.thesis.degreeDiscipline | English | |
| dc.thesis.degreeLevel | Ph.D. | |
| kusw.oastatus | na | |
| kusw.oapolicy | This item does not meet KU Open Access policy criteria. | |
| dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess | |
