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.

Table des matières

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

A propos de l'auteur

Richard Danson Brown is Senior Lecturer in English at The Open University

Résumé

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. -- .

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Richard Brown, Richard Danson Brown
• Collaboration: Joshua Samuel Reid (Editeur)
• Edition: Manchester University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9780719087325
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-8732-5
• Pages: 328
• Thèmes: The Manchester Spenser; Manchester Spenser Mup; The Manchester Spenser; Manchester Spenser Mup
• Catégories: Littérature > Poésie, théâtre; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Littérature générale et comparée; LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800