Edmund Spenser: New and Renewed DirectionsJ. B. Lethbridge Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 2006 - 385 pages This is a collection of wide-ranging papers on Edmund Spenser, including criticism on the Shepheardes Calender, Spenser's rhymes, his impact on Louis MacNeice, the medieval organizations of the Faerie Queene, on the Mutabilite Cantos, Temperance in Book II, and Friendship in Book IV, Written by younger as well as by well-established scholars, the contributors move quietly away from theoretically dominated criticism, and emphasize the importance of historical criticism, both breaking new ground and recuperating neglected insights and approaches. The introduction describes and defends the current trend towards a renewed historical criticism in Spenser criticism. The papers contribute to our knowledge of Spenser's life as well as to our understanding of his poetry. J. B. Lethbridge lectures at the English seminar at Tubingen University. |
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... most commit- ted to those projects ; for it seems that Spenser studies , and not those alone , have suffered from an unhealthy hegemony over the more than two decades since the return to history was announced and new historicism , the 15.
... most commit- ted to those projects ; for it seems that Spenser studies , and not those alone , have suffered from an unhealthy hegemony over the more than two decades since the return to history was announced and new historicism , the 15.
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... seems particularly new . Cf. K. M. Brownlee , M. Brownlee , and S. G. Nichols , eds . , The New Medievalism ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 1991 ) ; Ursula Schaefer , " The Medial Approach : A Paradigm Shift in the ...
... seems particularly new . Cf. K. M. Brownlee , M. Brownlee , and S. G. Nichols , eds . , The New Medievalism ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 1991 ) ; Ursula Schaefer , " The Medial Approach : A Paradigm Shift in the ...
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... seem exaggerated . The material , sociopolitical theme was only one aspect of a general move to de - mystify , by a materially inflected historicization , both the creative process , the Christian theology supposed to lie behind and ...
... seem exaggerated . The material , sociopolitical theme was only one aspect of a general move to de - mystify , by a materially inflected historicization , both the creative process , the Christian theology supposed to lie behind and ...
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... seems with hindsight not to have been concerned primarily with history itself , but to have worked within parameters suggested by dominant theoretical works ; designed to demonstrate , for example , that Spenser was devoted to ...
... seems with hindsight not to have been concerned primarily with history itself , but to have worked within parameters suggested by dominant theoretical works ; designed to demonstrate , for example , that Spenser was devoted to ...
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... seems not so much interested in the text intrinsically or historically , but in the text as an ex- ample of something else : some general thing , abstract , timeless , transhistorical , anhistorical - theoretical . The Autobiographical ...
... seems not so much interested in the text intrinsically or historically , but in the text as an ex- ample of something else : some general thing , abstract , timeless , transhistorical , anhistorical - theoretical . The Autobiographical ...
Contents
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Pastoral Motivation in The Shepheardes Calender | 59 |
Muiopotmos and Irish Politics | 81 |
The Medieval Structure of The Faerie Queene | 120 |
Guyons Perversion of the Ovidian Erotic in Book II of The Faerie Queene | 154 |
Acts of Friendship in The Faerie Queene Book IV | 196 |
Exile and the Kingdom in Some of Spensers Fictions for Crossing Over | 215 |
Spensers Ireland and the Frontiers of Faerie | 287 |
Ireland Career Mutability Allegory | 303 |
A New Look at the Spenserian Stanza | 338 |
MacNeice in Fairy Land | 353 |
Index | 371 |
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