Spenser's Allegory : The Anatomy of Imagination /

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Isabel MacCaffrey contends that, in allegory, the mind makes a model of itself, and she shows that The Faerie Queene, mirroring as it does the mind's structure, is both a treatise on and an example of the central role that imagination plays in human life.Viewing the poem as a model of Spenser&#...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: MacCaffrey, Isabel G. (Isabel Gamble), 1924-1978 (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1976.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Spenser, Edmund, > 1552?-1599.
Spenser, Edmund, > 1552?-1599. > Faerie queene.
Spenser, Edmund, > 1552?-1599 > Technique.
Faerie queene (Spenser, Edmund)
Technique.
Epic poetry, English.
Allegory.
POETRY > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Poetry.
Allegorie.
Poesie epique anglaise > Histoire et critique.
Epic poetry, English > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • I. Allegory and Imagination
  • II. Re-Mythologizing: Book I as Context
  • III. "Lovers Deare Debates": The Middle Books
  • IV. Book VI: The Paradise Within
  • Conclusion: The Promised End in Mutabilitie
  • Index
  • Backmatter

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