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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... Literary Career ( Toronto : University of Toronto Press , 1993 ) . 63 There are many histories and commentaries of the criticism of the ' 70s and ' 80s , and I note some here rather than attempting a full description in the text ...
... Literary Career ( Toronto : University of Toronto Press , 1993 ) . 63 There are many histories and commentaries of the criticism of the ' 70s and ' 80s , and I note some here rather than attempting a full description in the text ...
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... literary archeologist ran the risk , not always successfully , of etiolation , if not falsification . The literary text is , to consider just one factor , typically , self - consciously , composed as a constellation of voices and ...
... literary archeologist ran the risk , not always successfully , of etiolation , if not falsification . The literary text is , to consider just one factor , typically , self - consciously , composed as a constellation of voices and ...
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... literary aspirations with his programme of self - advancement . " 2 Such terms as " patronage , " " upward mobility , " and " self- advancement " have merged the image of Spenser the poet with that of the careerist public servant , the ...
... literary aspirations with his programme of self - advancement . " 2 Such terms as " patronage , " " upward mobility , " and " self- advancement " have merged the image of Spenser the poet with that of the careerist public servant , the ...
Contents
Contributors 791 | 11 |
Pastoral Motivation in The Shepheardes Calender | 58 |
Muiopotmos and Irish Politics | 80 |
Copyright | |
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