Resisting Allegory : Interpretive Delirium in Spenser's Faerie Queene [1 ed.] 9780823285655

Spenser is a delirious poet. He can't plough straight. What he builds is shiftier, twistier, than anything dreamed

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Resisting Allegory : Interpretive Delirium in Spenser's Faerie Queene [1 ed.]
9780823285655

In Resisting Allegory, the leading Spenser critic of our time sums up a lifelong commitment to the theory and practice o

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Professor Alpers argues that Spenser's purpose in The Faerie Queene was not to create a fictional world or to imita

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In 2002, World of Books Group was founded on an ethos to do good, protect the planet and support charities by enabling m

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Edmund Spenser famously conceded to his friend Walter Raleigh that his method in The Faerie Queene 'will seeme disp

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Introduces a Renaissance masterpiece to a modern audience This Guide will help new readers to understand and enjoy The

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Concentrating on major figures of women in 'The Faerie Queene', together with the figures constellated around

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InSpenser's Supreme Fiction, Jon A. Quitslund offers a rich analysis ofThe Faerie Queeneand of several texts contri

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Michael Dixon applies rhetorical theory to The Faerie Queene, highlighting the importance of rhetoric and locating the i

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The role of the human body as a poetic and ideological construct in the 1590 Faerie Queene provides the point of departu

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Quitslund argues that Spenser sought authority for his poem by grounding its narrative in a divinely ordained natural or

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