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Spenserian Moments / Gordon Teskey.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (384 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674243514
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 821/.3 23
LOC classification:
  • PR2358 .T475 2019
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on References, Texts, and Quotations -- Introduction -- PART ONE: ON SPENSER -- 1. Other Poets -- 2. Toward Fairy Land -- 3. In Ireland -- 4. A Survey of The Faerie Queene -- PART TWO: ON ALLEGORY -- 5. Allegory in The Faerie Queene -- 6. For a General Theory of Allegory -- 7. Death in an Allegory -- 8. Positioning Spenser’s Letter to Raleigh -- 9. Allegory and Renaissance Critical Theory -- 10. A Field Theory of Allegory -- PART THREE: ON THINKING -- 11. From Moment to Moment -- 12. Thinking Moments in The Faerie Queene -- 13. Courtesy and Thinking -- 14. The Thinking of History in Spenserian Romance -- PART FOUR: ON CHANGE -- 15. Colonial Allegories in Paris -- 16. Courtesy and the Graces -- 17. Night Thoughts on Mutability -- 18. Mutability Ascendant -- Afterword: The Colossi of Memnon -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Credits -- Index
Summary: 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 questions and visions, heralding a constantly changing future.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on References, Texts, and Quotations -- Introduction -- PART ONE: ON SPENSER -- 1. Other Poets -- 2. Toward Fairy Land -- 3. In Ireland -- 4. A Survey of The Faerie Queene -- PART TWO: ON ALLEGORY -- 5. Allegory in The Faerie Queene -- 6. For a General Theory of Allegory -- 7. Death in an Allegory -- 8. Positioning Spenser’s Letter to Raleigh -- 9. Allegory and Renaissance Critical Theory -- 10. A Field Theory of Allegory -- PART THREE: ON THINKING -- 11. From Moment to Moment -- 12. Thinking Moments in The Faerie Queene -- 13. Courtesy and Thinking -- 14. The Thinking of History in Spenserian Romance -- PART FOUR: ON CHANGE -- 15. Colonial Allegories in Paris -- 16. Courtesy and the Graces -- 17. Night Thoughts on Mutability -- 18. Mutability Ascendant -- Afterword: The Colossi of Memnon -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Credits -- Index

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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 questions and visions, heralding a constantly changing future.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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