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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... criticism , and what might a renewed return to history mean ? The issue is complex , even sub- tle . Not everyone will agree what is historical criticism and what not , nor whether the distinction can be properly made ; many works which ...
... criticism , and what might a renewed return to history mean ? The issue is complex , even sub- tle . Not everyone will agree what is historical criticism and what not , nor whether the distinction can be properly made ; many works which ...
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... Criticism Criticism shied away from the subjectivities of aesthetic criticism , the unprob- lematized , and elitist mysteries of moral or religious criticism , but found the way encumbered by the threat of subjectivity and ...
... Criticism Criticism shied away from the subjectivities of aesthetic criticism , the unprob- lematized , and elitist mysteries of moral or religious criticism , but found the way encumbered by the threat of subjectivity and ...
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... critics to the eminence where they replaced literature as the subject of criticism was aided by the structuralist and poststructuralist ap- proach to language wherein all reading becomes writing , to which we shall return presently , 80 ...
... critics to the eminence where they replaced literature as the subject of criticism was aided by the structuralist and poststructuralist ap- proach to language wherein all reading becomes writing , to which we shall return presently , 80 ...
Contents
Contributors 791 | 11 |
Pastoral Motivation in The Shepheardes Calender | 58 |
Muiopotmos and Irish Politics | 80 |
Copyright | |
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