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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... Present State of Ireland , " Spenser Studies 11 ( 1990 ) : 203-28 ; " Appropriating the Author of The Faerie Queene : The Attribution of the View of the Present State of Ireland and A Brief Note of Ireland to Edmund Spenser , " in ...
... Present State of Ireland , " Spenser Studies 11 ( 1990 ) : 203-28 ; " Appropriating the Author of The Faerie Queene : The Attribution of the View of the Present State of Ireland and A Brief Note of Ireland to Edmund Spenser , " in ...
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... present with the account of the past : Ranke comments : So high an office the present work does not attempt to fill , it only wants to show what happened ( “ Man hat der Historie das Amt , die Vergangenheit zu richten , die Mitwelt zum ...
... present with the account of the past : Ranke comments : So high an office the present work does not attempt to fill , it only wants to show what happened ( “ Man hat der Historie das Amt , die Vergangenheit zu richten , die Mitwelt zum ...
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... present context , by doing so he em- phasized the potential ambiguity of his setting , already very probably suggested by local topographical legend : 21 these mountains and waters which he could see any day were part also of his inner ...
... present context , by doing so he em- phasized the potential ambiguity of his setting , already very probably suggested by local topographical legend : 21 these mountains and waters which he could see any day were part also of his inner ...
Contents
Contributors 791 | 11 |
Pastoral Motivation in The Shepheardes Calender | 58 |
Muiopotmos and Irish Politics | 80 |
Copyright | |
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