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 Spenser Encyclopedia

The Spenser Encyclopedia
Author: A.C. Hamilton
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 2447
Release: 2020-07-01
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1134934823

'This masterly work ought to be The Elizabethan Encyclopedia, and no less.' - Cahiers Elizabethains Edmund Spenser remains one of Britain's most famous poets. With nearly 700 entries this Encyclopedia provides a comprehensive one-stop reference tool for: * appreciating Spenser's poetry in the context of his age and our own * understanding the language, themes and characters of the poems * easy to find entries arranged by subject.

Worldmaking Spenser

Worldmaking Spenser
Author: Patrick Cheney
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2021-10-21
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0813185602

Worldmaking Spenser reexamines the role of Spenser's work in English history and highlights the richness and complexity of his understanding of place. The volume centers on the idea that complex and allusive literary works such as The Faerie Queene must be read in the context of the cultural, literary, political, economic, and ideological forces at play in the highly allegorical poem. The authors define Spenser as the maker of poetic worlds, of the Elizabethan world, and of the modern world. The essays look at Spenser from three distinct vantage points. The contributors explore his literary origins in classical, medieval, and Renaissance continental writings and his influences on sixteenth-century culture. Spenser also had a great impact on later literary figures, including Lady Mary Wroth and Aemilia Lanyer, two of the seventeenth century's most important writers. The authors address the full range of Spenser's work, both long and short poetry as well as prose. The essays unequivocally demonstrate that Spenser occupies a substantial place in a seminal era in English history and European culture.

Edmund Spenser

Edmund Spenser
Author: Jennifer Klein Morrison
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2017-03-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1351941658

Though his writings have long been integral to the canon of early modern English literature, it is only in very recent scholarship that Edmund Spenser has been understood as a preeminent anthropologist whose work develops a complex theory of cultural change. The contributors to this volume approach Spenser’s work from that new perspective, rethinking his contribution as a theorist of culture in light of his poetics. The essays in the collection begin with close readings of Spenser’s writings and end by challenging the ethnographic allegories that shape our knowledge of early modern England. In this book Spenser is proven to be not only a powerful theorist of allegory and poetics but also a profound and subtle ethnographer of England and Ireland. This is an interdisciplinary volume, incorporating studies on history and art history as well as literary criticism. The essays are based on papers presented at The Faerie Queen in the World, 1596-1996: Edmund Spenser among the Disciplines , a conference which took place at the Yale Center for British Art in September 1996.

Interpretation and Theology in Spenser

Interpretation and Theology in Spenser
Author: Darryl J. Gless
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 1994-10-27
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521434744

An exploration of the ways in which new interpretations of theological doctrine inform Spenser's poetry.

Spenser's Ovidian Poetics

Spenser's Ovidian Poetics
Author: Michael L. Stapleton
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2009
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0874130808

The author's predecessors focus almost exclusively on the Metamorphoses as intertext, but do not often distinguish between early modern Latin editions of the poem and translations such as Arthur Golding's. Although Spenser read Ovid in his native language, during the quarter-century of his writing career, his countrymen such as Shakespeare, Donne, and Lodge imitate and recast the ancient author. During this English aetas Ovidiana, a translation industry arises simultaneously so that the entire corpus is rendered into English, from Golding's Metamorphoses (1567) to Wye Saltonstall's Ex Ponto (1638). Since the sixteenth century did not often read or hear a Roman poet in prose renditions, the author uses Renaissance poetical verse translations (with the Latin text) to explore Spenser's variegated use of Ovid: how he sounded as early modern English poetry.

Oaten Reeds and Trumpets

Oaten Reeds and Trumpets
Author: Donald Maurice Rosenberg
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Total Pages: 302
Release: 1981
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780838750025

Thorough study of the essential interdependence of the pastoral and epic genres. Proceeds historically from Virgil tracing the evolution of the heroic toward the increasing accommodation of the pastoral. Establishes principles for interpreting the works of major poets who set out to resolve the tensions between imagination and reality, contemplation and action, poetry and prophecy.

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.