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Informationen zum Autor Maik Goth is a Research Assistant at Ruhr-Universität Bochum Klappentext Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene (1590; 1596) is an epic romance teeming with dragons, fantastic animals, giants, grotesque human-animal composites, monstrous humans and other creatures. This monograph is the first ever book-length account of Spenser's monsters and their relation to the poetic imagination in the Renaissance. It provides readers with an extended discussion of the role monstrous beings play in Spenser's epic romance, and how they are related to the Renaissance notions of the imagination and poetic creation. This book first offers a taxonomic inventory of the monstrous beings in The Faerie Queene, which analyses them along systematic and anatomical parameters. It then reads monsters and monstrous beings as signs interacting with the early modern discourse on the autonomous poet, who creates a secondary nature through the use of his transformative imagination and fashions monsters as ciphers that need to be interpreted by the reader. Zusammenfassung The first ever book-length account of Spenser's monsters and their relation to the poetic imagination in the Renaissance. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionPart I: 'Complicated monsters head and tail': A primer in Spenser, monsters, and teratology1. The Faerie Queene - A poem of monsters?2. The monstrous in the early modern period3. Historical perspectives on the monstrous 4. How to read monsters: A survey of Spenser studies, and teratologyPart II: Reading the monster: Taxonomy 5. Taxonomic considerations6. Monsters and monstrous beings in The Faerie Queene7. Monstrous animals (1): dragons8. Monstrous animals (2): four-footed beasts 9. Human-animal composites 10. Giants11. Monstrous humans 12. Automata13. Taxonomy reconsideredPart III: Making monsters: The monstrous imagination and the poet's autonomy in The Faerie Queene14. The problem of the literary monster in the discourse of the poetic imagination 15. The monstrous and the literary heterocosm16. In Phantastes's chamber17. Animating the monstrous imagination in The Faerie Queene18. Poetic creation: Spenser as Prometheus19. The poet's autonomy and the use of the monstrous imagination20. Interpreting the monstrousConclusionBibliography Index...
