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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... writers and modern readers , the newer criticism , as part of its work , sought localized par- ticularities amid the material circumstances of production in the temporally and geographically restricted , that is , historicized , texts ...
... writers and modern readers , the newer criticism , as part of its work , sought localized par- ticularities amid the material circumstances of production in the temporally and geographically restricted , that is , historicized , texts ...
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... writers , texts , and cultures and a determined effort to dissociate criticism from the lingering enlightenment idea of an eternal human nature addressing itself through and across the ages , a valuable insistence which was , however ...
... writers , texts , and cultures and a determined effort to dissociate criticism from the lingering enlightenment idea of an eternal human nature addressing itself through and across the ages , a valuable insistence which was , however ...
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... writer , any sample of language . Citations could be collected announcing similar conclusions from the criticism of any author under the sun . See n . 73 below . 71 Kastan quotes Eagleton : criticism is " the continuation of radical ...
... writer , any sample of language . Citations could be collected announcing similar conclusions from the criticism of any author under the sun . See n . 73 below . 71 Kastan quotes Eagleton : criticism is " the continuation of radical ...
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... writing in 1986 , spoke of the shift of interest away " from the meaning of the text to the principles governing its act of signification . " similar ; this could not be so if the criticism attended more closely to historicity . E.g. ...
... writing in 1986 , spoke of the shift of interest away " from the meaning of the text to the principles governing its act of signification . " similar ; this could not be so if the criticism attended more closely to historicity . E.g. ...
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... writing , to which we shall return presently , 80 and to the postmodern commitment to an ineluctable ( and mutually irreconcilable ) multiplicity of irredeemably idiosyncratic points of view . This cer- tainly had the effect of making ...
... writing , to which we shall return presently , 80 and to the postmodern commitment to an ineluctable ( and mutually irreconcilable ) multiplicity of irredeemably idiosyncratic points of view . This cer- tainly had the effect of making ...
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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