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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... writing is given priority over speech , and styles and methods of criticism based on that premise are applied , there is no possibility of history . When a poem is seen as text , as an example of textuality , it is seen as a small but ...
... writing is given priority over speech , and styles and methods of criticism based on that premise are applied , there is no possibility of history . When a poem is seen as text , as an example of textuality , it is seen as a small but ...
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... writing is neither wholly and freely individual , nor wholly and constrainedly cultural . If one thinks that ... writing and publishing , which may or may not be closely , intimately related to the meaning of the words , as well as the ...
... writing is neither wholly and freely individual , nor wholly and constrainedly cultural . If one thinks that ... writing and publishing , which may or may not be closely , intimately related to the meaning of the words , as well as the ...
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... writing , sev- eral months of which were , however , troubled by the rebellion.25 But the main work , The Faerie ... writers of all sorts do have infertile periods , but it seems highly unlikely that so long a spell should have passed ...
... writing , sev- eral months of which were , however , troubled by the rebellion.25 But the main work , The Faerie ... writers of all sorts do have infertile periods , but it seems highly unlikely that so long a spell should have passed ...
Contents
Contributors 791 | 11 |
Pastoral Motivation in The Shepheardes Calender | 58 |
Muiopotmos and Irish Politics | 80 |
Copyright | |
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