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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... marriage , but the marriage to come is not theirs . It is the marriage of the Thames and Medway , a marriage in the natu- ral and political world , and a marriage of opposites who merge but , paradoxically , remain two . The marriage of ...
... marriage , but the marriage to come is not theirs . It is the marriage of the Thames and Medway , a marriage in the natu- ral and political world , and a marriage of opposites who merge but , paradoxically , remain two . The marriage of ...
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... Marriage of Philology and Mercury , the learned bride Philology invokes the goddess as securing specific ceremonial ... marriage in Martianus Capella with a specific end in view : Fear not the marriage chamber , maiden . You too will be ...
... Marriage of Philology and Mercury , the learned bride Philology invokes the goddess as securing specific ceremonial ... marriage in Martianus Capella with a specific end in view : Fear not the marriage chamber , maiden . You too will be ...
Page 260
... marriage to her horses ' groom . The same goddess who condescends to kiss Lyly's Endymion back into life and favor also arranges a marriage for the play's enchanted Sir Tophas , but only after this buffoonish Braggadocchio type has been ...
... marriage to her horses ' groom . The same goddess who condescends to kiss Lyly's Endymion back into life and favor also arranges a marriage for the play's enchanted Sir Tophas , but only after this buffoonish Braggadocchio type has been ...
Contents
Contributors 791 | 11 |
Pastoral Motivation in The Shepheardes Calender | 58 |
Muiopotmos and Irish Politics | 80 |
Copyright | |
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