Spenserian moments /

Gordon Teskey restores Edmund Spenser to prominence, revealing his epic The Faerie Queene as a grand, improvisatory project on human nature. Teskey compares Spenser to Milton, an avowed follower. While Milton's rigid ideology is now stale, Spenser's allegories remain vital, inviting new qu...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Teskey, Gordon, 1953- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge Massachusetts The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2019
Subjects:
Spenser, Edmund, > 1552?-1599. > Faerie queene.
Faerie queene (Spenser, Edmund)
Allegory.
Epic poetry, English > History and criticism.
Allégorie.
Poésie épique anglaise > Histoire et critique.
allegories (literary works)
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Allegory
Epic poetry, English
Literary criticism
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Part one. Spenser: Other poets
  • Towards fairy land
  • In Ireland
  • A survey of The faerie queene
  • Part two. Allegory: Allegory in The faerie queene
  • For a general theory of allegory
  • Death in an allegory
  • Positioning Spenser's letter to Raleigh
  • Allegory and Renaissance critical theory
  • A field theory of allegory
  • Part three. Thinking: From moment to moment
  • Thinking moments in The faerie queene
  • Courtesy and thinking
  • Thinking of history in Spenserian romance
  • The Colossi of Memnon: Edmund Spenser and Jacques Derrida
  • Part four. Change: Colonial allegories in Paris
  • Courtesy and the graces
  • Night thoughts on mutabilitie
  • Mutability ascendant.

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