Edmund Spenser: New and Renewed DirectionsJ. B. Lethbridge Fairleigh Dickinson Univ 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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... criticism which entails a recession of theoretical criticism . This is straightforward enough and illustrating it occupies the first section of the introduction , which amounts to a cursory survey of the last quarter of a century of ...
... criticism which entails a recession of theoretical criticism . This is straightforward enough and illustrating it occupies the first section of the introduction , which amounts to a cursory survey of the last quarter of a century of ...
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... criticism was in its prime , there would appear to be something of a resurgence of specifically historical work , untrammeled by ex- plicit theoretical webbing , and marked by a renewed attention to Spenser's works themselves , a ...
... criticism was in its prime , there would appear to be something of a resurgence of specifically historical work , untrammeled by ex- plicit theoretical webbing , and marked by a renewed attention to Spenser's works themselves , a ...
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... critic . Criticism which treats Spenser's names appeared in the ' 70s when historical work was still , not perhaps dominant , but active . There is a gap of ten years before Horstmann can cite three works from the ' 80s , and then three ...
... critic . Criticism which treats Spenser's names appeared in the ' 70s when historical work was still , not perhaps dominant , but active . There is a gap of ten years before Horstmann can cite three works from the ' 80s , and then three ...
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... criticism at the time , the moral allegory and human or humane aspects of Spenser , fed by intellectual history , the history of ideas and theological awareness , the concentration on moral allegory somewhat suppressing the search for ...
... criticism at the time , the moral allegory and human or humane aspects of Spenser , fed by intellectual history , the history of ideas and theological awareness , the concentration on moral allegory somewhat suppressing the search for ...
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... criticism are hard to overestimate , this partly a function of their quality , are Richard Helgerson's Self - Crowned Laureates ( 1983 ) , improving the influence of semiology , and David Lee Miller's The Poem's Two Bodies ( 1988 ) ...
... criticism are hard to overestimate , this partly a function of their quality , are Richard Helgerson's Self - Crowned Laureates ( 1983 ) , improving the influence of semiology , and David Lee Miller's The Poem's Two Bodies ( 1988 ) ...
Contents
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Pastoral Motivation in The Shepheardes Calender | 59 |
Muiopotmos and Irish Politics | 81 |
The Medieval Structure of The Faerie Queene | 120 |
Guyons Perversion of the Ovidian Erotic in Book II of The Faerie Queene | 154 |
Acts of Friendship in The Faerie Queene Book IV | 196 |
Exile and the Kingdom in Some of Spensers Fictions for Crossing Over | 215 |
Spensers Ireland and the Frontiers of Faerie | 287 |
Ireland Career Mutability Allegory | 303 |
A New Look at the Spenserian Stanza | 338 |
MacNeice in Fairy Land | 353 |
Index | 371 |
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