Edmund Spenser: New and Renewed DirectionsJ. B. Lethbridge Fairleigh Dickinson University 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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Page 11
... course there are those who may not or will not be cited : my wife for instance has , with iron resolve , forbidden me to include her , despite the fact that she should of course be the Alpha , Omega , and Mu . But there it is . Surely ...
... course there are those who may not or will not be cited : my wife for instance has , with iron resolve , forbidden me to include her , despite the fact that she should of course be the Alpha , Omega , and Mu . But there it is . Surely ...
Page 146
... course , an examina- tion of the rest of the manuscript would reveal further generic variety . Compare this to The Faerie Queene , where various miscellaneous genres do not exist as separate " items " between the romances , but they ...
... course , an examina- tion of the rest of the manuscript would reveal further generic variety . Compare this to The Faerie Queene , where various miscellaneous genres do not exist as separate " items " between the romances , but they ...
Page 333
... course , once these ideas have provoked us to reconsider in this light The Faerie Queene , we may dispense with them if we find them inconclusive or merely spec- ulative . But , used heuristically , they do prompt interesting thoughts ...
... course , once these ideas have provoked us to reconsider in this light The Faerie Queene , we may dispense with them if we find them inconclusive or merely spec- ulative . But , used heuristically , they do prompt interesting thoughts ...
Contents
Contributors 791 | 11 |
Pastoral Motivation in The Shepheardes Calender | 58 |
Muiopotmos and Irish Politics | 80 |
Copyright | |
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