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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... fact that it was uttered in this place and at this time by this speaker is a fact whose importance far exceeds the mere fact of what was said . This is why , just to illustrate , it is strange that some modern historians belittle oral ...
... fact that it was uttered in this place and at this time by this speaker is a fact whose importance far exceeds the mere fact of what was said . This is why , just to illustrate , it is strange that some modern historians belittle oral ...
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... fact , be maintained as a corrective to some trends in the criticism of both the Cantos and the whole of The Faerie ... facts , then the historical theory is sound . I shall not press the point however ; it would be a more complicated ...
... fact , be maintained as a corrective to some trends in the criticism of both the Cantos and the whole of The Faerie ... facts , then the historical theory is sound . I shall not press the point however ; it would be a more complicated ...
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... fact came about can be explained . The reason behind the present form of the Cantos would then be , that realizing he would not live to complete or recomplete his great poem , Spenser tried to rescue what he could of what he had ...
... fact came about can be explained . The reason behind the present form of the Cantos would then be , that realizing he would not live to complete or recomplete his great poem , Spenser tried to rescue what he could of what he had ...
Contents
Contributors 791 | 11 |
Pastoral Motivation in The Shepheardes Calender | 58 |
Muiopotmos and Irish Politics | 80 |
Copyright | |
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