Spenser: The Faerie Queene 9781350388611, 9781349891030

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Spenser: The Faerie Queene
9781350388611, 9781349891030

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Comic Spenser explains how the deep-rooted cultural bias against humour has skewed interpretation of The Faerie Queene s

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The four-hundred-year story of readers' struggles with a famously unreadable poem—and what they reveal about the hi

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This book is the first ever concordance to the rhymes of Spenser’s epic. It gives the reader unparalleled access to the

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Introduces a Renaissance masterpiece to a modern audience This Guide will help new readers to understand and enjoy The

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The Art of The Faerie Queene offers a new approach to Spenser’s massive Elizabethan epic, presenting it is as a formally

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In Resisting Allegory, the leading Spenser critic of our time sums up a lifelong commitment to the theory and practice o

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The role of the human body as a poetic and ideological construct in the 1590 Faerie Queene provides the point of departu

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Michael Dixon applies rhetorical theory to The Faerie Queene, highlighting the importance of rhetoric and locating the i

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s missio

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This book combines an analysis of The Faerie Queene's, total form with an exposition of its allegorical content.

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