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Author | : Patrick Cheney |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2021-10-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0813185602 |
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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.
Author | : Christopher Burlinson |
Publisher | : DS Brewer |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781843840787 |
Download Allegory, Space and the Material World in the Writings of Edmund Spenser Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An examination of the way in which the material world is depicted in The Faerie Queene. This book provides a radical reassessment of Spenserian allegory, in particular of The Faerie Queene, in the light of contemporary historical and theoretical interests in space and material culture. It explores the ambiguous and fluctuating attention to materiality, objects, and substance in the poetics of The Faerie Queene, and discusses the way that Spenser's creation of allegorical meaning makes use of this materiality, and transforms it.It suggests further that a critical engagement with materiality (which has been so important to the recent study of early modern drama) must come, in the case of allegorical narrative, through a study of narrative and physical space, and in this context it goes on to provide a reading of the spatial dimensions of the poem - quests and battles, forests, castles and hovels - and the spatial characteristics of Spenser's other writings. The book reaffirms theneed to place Spenser in his historical contexts - philosophical and scientific, military and architectural - in early modern England, Ireland and Europe, but also provides a critical reassessment of this literary historicism. Dr CHRISTOPHER BURLINSON is a Research Fellow in English at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
Author | : Ayesha Ramachandran |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2015-10-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 022628882X |
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In this beautifully conceived book, Ayesha Ramachandran reconstructs the imaginative struggles of early modern artists, philosophers, and writers to make sense of something that we take for granted: the world, imagined as a whole. Once a new, exciting, and frightening concept, “the world” was transformed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. But how could one envision something that no one had ever seen in its totality? The Worldmakers moves beyond histories of globalization to explore how “the world” itself—variously understood as an object of inquiry, a comprehensive category, and a system of order—was self-consciously shaped by human agents. Gathering an international cast of characters, from Dutch cartographers and French philosophers to Portuguese and English poets, Ramachandran describes a history of firsts: the first world atlas, the first global epic, the first modern attempt to develop a systematic natural philosophy—all part of an effort by early modern thinkers to capture “the world” on the page.
Author | : Thomas Herron |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780754656029 |
Download Spenser's Irish Work Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Exploring Edmund Spenser's writings within the historical and aesthetic context of colonial and agricultural reform in Ireland, his adopted home, this study demonstrates how Irish events and influences operate in far more of Spenser's work than previously suspected.
Author | : Bart Van Es |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780199249701 |
Download Spenser's Forms of History Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
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Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2001 |
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Author | : Ayesha Ramachandran |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2015-10-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 022628879X |
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Ayesha Ramachandran reconstructs the imaginative struggles of early modern artists, philosophers, and writers to make sense of something that we take for granted: the world, imagined as a whole. 'The Worldmakers' moves beyond histories of globalisation to explore how 'the world' itself - variously understood as an object of inquiry, a comprehensive category, and a system of order - was self-consciously shaped by human agents.
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Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2005 |
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Download The Spenser Review Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : William A. Oram |
Publisher | : AMS Press |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2008-02-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780404192228 |
Download Spenser Studies Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Caroline McManus |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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Download Spenser's Faerie Queene and the Reading of Women Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Linking The Faerie Queene with early modern conduct manuals, romances, dedicatory epistles, and devotional literature, McManus examines the poem's depiction of women's interpretive strategies and argues that female readers were expected to exercise considerable autonomy as they endorsed, adapted, or resisted the texts that sought to fashion them as "chaste, silent and obedient.