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Poetry of the Faerie Queene /

Professor Alpers argues that Spenser's purpose in The Faerie Queene was not to create a fictional world or to imitate action, but to create and manipulate the reader's response. Individual episodes in the poem are considered by the author as developing psychological experience within the r...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Alpers, Paul J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Princeton, N.J.] : Princeton University Press, 1967.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The rhetorical mode of Spenser's narrative
  • Narrative materials and stanzas of poetry
  • Spenser's poetic language
  • The problem of structure in The faerie queene
  • Interpretation and the sixteenth-century reader
  • Spenser's use of Ariosto
  • Iconography in The faerie queene
  • Interpreting the Cave of Mammon
  • The nature of Spenser's allegory
  • Heroism and human strength in Book I
  • Heroic and pastoral in Book III.