Art of the Faerie Queene

The Art of The Faerie Queene offers a new approach to Spenser's massive Elizabethan epic, presenting it is as a formally radical and innovative text. Where previous criticism has presented Spenser as a conservative technician, this book explores his unexpected experiments with form in the service of its complex allegories.

List of contents

Introduction: tightrope walking in an afflicted style
1: Doubtful words: the vocabulary of The Faerie Queene
2: Uncommon lines: lineation and metre
3: Proportionable returns: rhyme, meaning and experience
4: Unusual staff: the archaeology of the Spenserian stanza
5: Another cast in different hews: canto form
6: Spacious ways: narratives and narrators
Appendix: stanza lead words
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Richard Danson Brown is Senior Lecturer in English at The Open University J.B. Lethbridge is Lecturer in English at Tübingen University

Summary

The Art of The Faerie Queene offers a new approach to Spenser’s massive Elizabethan epic, presenting it is as a formally radical and innovative text. Where previous criticism has presented Spenser as a conservative technician, this book explores his unexpected experiments with form in the service of its complex allegories. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Richard Brown, Richard Danson Brown
• Assisted by: Joshua Samuel Reid (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9780719087325
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-8732-5
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: The Manchester Spenser; Manchester Spenser Mup; The Manchester Spenser; Manchester Spenser Mup
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies