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Worldmaking Spenser

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Author : Patrick Cheney
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2014-07-15

Worldmaking Spenser written by Patrick Cheney and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-15 with Literary Criticism categories.

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.

Spenser S Forms Of History

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Author : Bart Van Es
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002

Spenser S Forms Of History written by Bart Van Es and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.

In Spenser's Forms of History, Bart van Es describes six modes through which Early Modern England addressed the past: chronicle, chorography, antiquarian discourse, euhemerism, typology, and prophecy. By setting this material alongside the works of Edmund Spenser, the book explores allusive strategies ranging in effect from euology to polemic. Key Spenserian texts, including The Faerie Queene, The Shepeardes Calendar, and A View of the Present State of Ireland, are read against Elizabethan cultural documents extending from popular print to restricted manuscripts. Over the course of six chapters, each focusing on a single 'form', the book shows Spenser to have been an exceptional historical thinker. Drawing on recent studies of nationhood, the study not only offers a new picture of the English 'Poet Historical', but also makes an innovative contribution to current debates concerning the relationship between literature and history.

The Worldmakers

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Author : Ayesha Ramachandran
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2015-10-13

The Worldmakers written by Ayesha Ramachandran and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-13 with Literary Criticism categories.

In this beautifully conceived book, Ayesha Ramachandran reconstructs the imaginative struggles of early modern artists, philosophers, and writers to make sense of something that we take for granted: the world, imagined as a whole. Once a new, exciting, and frightening concept, “the world” was transformed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. But how could one envision something that no one had ever seen in its totality? The Worldmakers moves beyond histories of globalization to explore how “the world” itself—variously understood as an object of inquiry, a comprehensive category, and a system of order—was self-consciously shaped by human agents. Gathering an international cast of characters, from Dutch cartographers and French philosophers to Portuguese and English poets, Ramachandran describes a history of firsts: the first world atlas, the first global epic, the first modern attempt to develop a systematic natural philosophy—all part of an effort by early modern thinkers to capture “the world” on the page.

Spenser S Irish Work

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Author : Thomas Herron
language : en
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date : 2007

Spenser S Irish Work written by Thomas Herron and has been published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Literary Criticism categories.

Exploring Edmund Spenser's writings within the historical and aesthetic context of colonial and agricultural reform in Ireland, his adopted home, this study demonstrates how Irish events and influences operate in far more of Spenser's work than previously suspected.

Spenser Newsletter

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001

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Of Memory And Literary Form

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Author : Kyle Pivetti
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2015-10-08

Of Memory And Literary Form written by Kyle Pivetti and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-08 with Literary Criticism categories.

This book opens with a crisis of recollection. In the early modern period, real political traumas like civil war and regicide exacerbated what were already perceived ruptures in myths of English descent. William Camden and other scholars had revealed that the facts of history could not justify the Arthurian myths, nor could history itself guarantee any moment of collective origin for the English people. Yet poets and playwrights concerned with the status of the emerging nation state did not respond with new material evidence. Instead, they turned to the literary structures that—through a range of what the author calls mnemonic effects—could generate the experience of a collective past. As Sir Philip Sidney recognized, verse depends upon the repetitions of rhyme and meter; consequently poetry “far exceedeth prose in the knitting up of memory.” These poetic and linguistic forms expose national memory as a construction at potential odds with history, for memory operates like language—through a series of signifiers that acquire new meaning as one rearranges and rereads them. Moving from the tragedy Gorboduc (1561) to Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel (1681), Pivetti shows how such “knitting up of memory” created the shared pasts that generate nationhood. His work implies that memory emerges not from what actually occurred, but from the forms that compose it. Or to adapt the words of Paul Ricoeur: “we have nothing better than memory to signify that something has taken place.” The same is true even when that “something” is nationhood.

The Spenser Review

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005

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Spenser Studies

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Author : William Allan Oram
language : en
Publisher: AMS Press
Release Date : 2008-02-29

Spenser Studies written by William Allan Oram and has been published by AMS Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-02-29 with Literary Criticism categories.

Spenser S Colonial Poetics

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Author : Sonja Helene Albrecht
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004

Spenser S Colonial Poetics written by Sonja Helene Albrecht and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with categories.

Spenser S Faerie Queene And The Reading Of Women

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Author : Caroline McManus
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002

Spenser S Faerie Queene And The Reading Of Women written by Caroline McManus and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Literary Criticism categories.

Linking The Faerie Queene with early modern conduct manuals, romances, dedicatory epistles, and devotional literature, McManus examines the poem's depiction of women's interpretive strategies and argues that female readers were expected to exercise considerable autonomy as they endorsed, adapted, or resisted the texts that sought to fashion them as "chaste, silent and obedient.