Spenser's World of Glass

Spenser's World of Glass
Author: Kathleen Williams
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2023-11-10
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0520312465

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1966.

Spenser's World of Glass

Spenser's World of Glass
Author: Kathleen Williams
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2022-05-13
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0520358945

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1966.

Edmund Spenser

Edmund Spenser
Author: Andrew Hadfield
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2014-09-19
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317891317

This collection represents some of the best recent critical writing on Edmund Spenser, a major Renaissance English poet. The essays cover the whole of Spensers work, from early literary experiments such as The Shepeardes Calendar, to his unfinished crowning work,The Fairie Queene. The introduction provides an overview of critical responses to Spenser, setting his work and the debates which it has generated in their perspective contexts: new historicist, post-structural, psychoanalytic and feminist. His study also covers the critical responses of leading British, Irish and American scholars.

The Myth of Sisyphus

The Myth of Sisyphus
Author: Elliott M. Simon
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Total Pages: 622
Release: 2007
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780838641163

"The myth of Sisyphus symbolizes the archetypal process of becoming without the consolation of absolute achievement. It is both a poignant reflection of the human condition and a prominent framing text for classical, medieval, and renaissance theories of human perfectibility. In this unique reading of the myth through classical philosophies, pagan and Christian religious doctrines, and medieval and renaissance literature, we see Sisyphus, "the most cunning of human beings," attempting to transcend his imperfections empowered by his imagination to renew his faith in the infinite potentialities of human excellence."--BOOK JACKET

Comic Spenser

Comic Spenser
Author: Victoria Coldham-Fussell
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2020-03-10
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1526131137

Comic Spenser explains how the deep-rooted cultural bias against humour has skewed interpretation of The Faerie Queene since its first publication. As well as bringing a comic perspective to new areas of the poem, this study explores profound connections between humour, faith, and allegory.

Literature, Politics and National Identity

Literature, Politics and National Identity
Author: Andrew Hadfield
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 286
Release: 1994-06-23
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0521442079

A challenging reinterpretation of the sixteenth century through the work of major writers of the time.

Play of Double Senses

Play of Double Senses
Author: A. Bartlett Giamatti
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 164
Release: 1990
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780393306316

A balanced, coherent reading that is both enlightening and full of delight. --Choice

Merlin

Merlin
Author: Peter H. Goodrich
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 454
Release: 2004-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1135583404

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.