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Author: Edmund Spenser
Publisher: Canon Press & Book Service
Keywords: spenser, faerie, queene, edmund, book, wars, faithful, loves, fierce
Number of Pages: 242
Published: 1999-01-01
ISBN-10: 1885767390
ISBN-13: 9781885767394
"Despite all of his acknowledged greatness, almost no one reads Edmund Spenser (1552ż99) anymore. Roy Maynard takes the first book of the Faerie Queene, exploring the concept of Holiness with the character of the Redcross Knight, and makes Spenser accessible again. He does this not by dumbing it down, but by deftly modernizing the spelling, explaining the obscurities in clever asides, and cuing the reader towards the right response. In todayżs cultural, aesthetic, and educational wars, Spenser is a mighty ally for twenty-first century Christians. Maynard proves himself a worthy mediator betw
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Author: Lauren Silberman
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: iii, faerie, queene, books, knowledge, desire, erotic, transforming
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 1995
ISBN-10: 0520084861
ISBN-13: 9780520084865
The Faerie Queene anticipates postmodernist concerns with destabilizing language, and Lauren Silberman's stimulating study of Books III and IV of the poem proceeds from the assumption that Spenser has something important to say to us in the late twentieth century.In these books, Spenser exposes fictions of total control for what they are--fictions. The text affirms the value of risk and improvisation over the temptation to seek guarantees. The books examine the role of desire in moving us to function in an uncertain world and tempting us to foreclose that uncertainty by strategies that seek to
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Author: Edmund Spenser
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Keywords: queene, faerie
Number of Pages: 186
Published: 2010-01
ISBN-10: 145100088X
ISBN-13: 9781451000887
Volume: 2 Publisher: Cambridge [England]: University Press Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.
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Author: Jeffrey Knapp
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: utopia, tempest, literature, america, nowhere, england, empire
Number of Pages: 410
Published: 1994
ISBN-10: 0520073622
ISBN-13: 9780520073623
What caused England's literary renaissance? One answer has been such unprecedented developments as the European discovery of America. Yet England in the sixteenth century was far from an expanding nation. Not only did the Tudors lose England's sole remaining possessions on the Continent and, thanks to the Reformation, grow spiritually divided from the Continent as well, but every one of their attempts to colonize the New World actually failed.Jeffrey Knapp accounts for this strange combination of literary expansion and national isolation by showing how the English made a virtue of their increa
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Author: Charles Stanley Ross
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: macbeth, malory, castle, custom
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 1997-02-25
ISBN-10: 0520204301
ISBN-13: 9780520204300
The "custom of the castle" imposes strange ordeals on knights and ladies seeking hospitality--daunting, mostly evil challenges that travelers must obey or even defend. This seemingly fantastic motif, first conceived by Chrtien de Troyes in the twelfth century and widely imitated in medieval French romance, flowered again when Italian and English authors adopted it during the century before Shakespeare's plays and the rise of the novel. Unlike other scholars who have dismissed it as pure literary convention, Charles Ross finds serious social purpose behind the custom of the castle.Ross explores
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