Spenser Studies
Author | : William A. Oram |
Publisher | : AMS Press |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2008-02-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780404192228 |
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Author | : William A. Oram |
Publisher | : AMS Press |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2008-02-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780404192228 |
Author | : Bart Van Es |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2005-11-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0230524567 |
This book provides an authoritative guide to debate on Elizabethan England's poet laureate. It covers key topics and provides histories for all of the primary texts. Some of today's most prominent Spenser scholars offer accounts of debates on the poet, from the Renaissance to the present day. Essential for those producing new research on Spenser.
Author | : William A. Oram |
Publisher | : AMS Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2008-02-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780404192228 |
Author | : Anne Lake Prescott |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : English poetry |
ISBN | : 9780404192280 |
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Author | : William A. Oram |
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Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : English poetry |
ISBN | : 9780404192204 |
Author | : Bart Van Es |
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Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780199249701 |
In Spenser's Forms of History, Bart Van Es presents an engaging study of the ways in which Edmund Spenser utilized a number of "forms of history"--chronicle, antiquarian discourse, secular typology, political prophecy, and others--in both his poetry and his prose, and assesses their collective impact on Elizabethan poetry.
Author | : Jennifer Klein Morrison |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2017-03-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1351941658 |
Though his writings have long been integral to the canon of early modern English literature, it is only in very recent scholarship that Edmund Spenser has been understood as a preeminent anthropologist whose work develops a complex theory of cultural change. The contributors to this volume approach Spenser’s work from that new perspective, rethinking his contribution as a theorist of culture in light of his poetics. The essays in the collection begin with close readings of Spenser’s writings and end by challenging the ethnographic allegories that shape our knowledge of early modern England. In this book Spenser is proven to be not only a powerful theorist of allegory and poetics but also a profound and subtle ethnographer of England and Ireland. This is an interdisciplinary volume, incorporating studies on history and art history as well as literary criticism. The essays are based on papers presented at The Faerie Queen in the World, 1596-1996: Edmund Spenser among the Disciplines , a conference which took place at the Yale Center for British Art in September 1996.
Author | : Murray Roston |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
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Deconstructionist critics have argued that literary works contain conflicting or contradictory meanings, thus creating an aporia, or impasse, that prevents readers from interpreting the work. Here, however, Murray Roston offers detailed and essentially new analyses of works by Shakespeare, Spenser, Jonson, and Donne, arguing that the seemingly contradictory presence of traditional and subversive elements in their major works actually creates the source of much of their literary achievement. Chapters explore The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, Faerie Queene, Volpone, and the Meditations of John Donne, highlighting the creative tension between centripetal and centrifugal factors (borrowing Bakhtin's terms). As Roston demonstrates, this tension exists in a variety of genres, including poetry, epic and drama, and even in religious prose which, he acknowledges, might be thought to be exempt from such inner conflict because of its doctrinal and theological focus. The tension between tradition and subversion, both linguistic and cultural, then, can be seen to produce not aporia in any negative sense, but a positive complexity of response from the audience, animating and profoundly enriching each work. In The Merchant of Venice, for example, Shakespeare merges the previously despised figure of the merchant with a Christ-like figure, brilliantly reasserting the Christian condemnation of profiteering while simultaneously advocating its seeming opposite, a validation of the burgeoning mercantile activity of the Renaissance. Tradition and Subversion in Renaissance Literary Studies is a thoughtful study, rich in both historical scholarship and in its survey of modern criticism. Even those who are quite familiar with the texts discussed here will find Roston's focus on the tension between maintaining the expectations of the culture and pulling toward new ideas an illuminating way to freshly consider these literary works.
Author | : Patrick Cheney |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2014-07-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0813161568 |
Worldmaking Spenser reexamines the role of Spenser's work in English history and highlights the richness and complexity of his understanding of place. The volume centers on the idea that complex and allusive literary works such as The Faerie Queene must be read in the context of the cultural, literary, political, economic, and ideological forces at play in the highly allegorical poem. The authors define Spenser as the maker of poetic worlds, of the Elizabethan world, and of the modern world. The essays look at Spenser from three distinct vantage points. The contributors explore his literary origins in classical, medieval, and Renaissance continental writings and his influences on sixteenth-century culture. Spenser also had a great impact on later literary figures, including Lady Mary Wroth and Aemilia Lanyer, two of the seventeenth century's most important writers. The authors address the full range of Spenser's work, both long and short poetry as well as prose. The essays unequivocally demonstrate that Spenser occupies a substantial place in a seminal era in English history and European culture.