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1 online resource (x, 227 pages) :
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ISBN:
9781846155062 (ebook)
Content:
Recent Spenser criticism has thrown much new light, and much doubt, on the nature of The Faerie Queene's involvement in contemporary political and religious controversies. Material to these developments has been wide recognition of the unreliability of the poem's narrating voice and its often parodic relation to generic conventions. Nonetheless, some longstanding misconceptions about allegory still limit understanding of Spenser's approach to topical issues. This book re-examines The Faerie Queene's allegorical method, showing what is gained by recognising that the poem's main locus of allegorical self-interpretation, as in the medieval 'Quest of the Holy Grail', is within rather than extrinsic to the story world. Like the knights of the 'Quest', Spenser's heroes are poised between rival codes of moral interpretation, in a way that illuminates the relative value of those codes as guides to action. But unlike its predecessor, Spenser's poem addresses an era violently divided as to which constitutes the true code of right and wrong. Amongst the oppositions it grapples with are the ideological conflict in England and Ireland between emergent monarchic absolutism and residual feudalism, the doctrinal division between the Elizabethan and Roman churches, and the Machiavellian challenge to received ideas about political and religious legitimacy. Dr PAUL SUTTIE is a Senior Member of Robinson College, Cambridge.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
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'To direct your understanding': allegory, or 'authoritative' commentary -- 'This and that': the experience of allegory -- Allegorical characters -- The locus of self-interpretation -- Specious and valid paradigms of self-interpretation -- The rhetoric of self-interpretation -- The mythology of self-interpretation -- The legend of temperance: self-interpretation from the ground up -- Self-interpretation and self-assertion in books three and four -- Self-interpretation beyond the pale in books five and six -- The mutability cantos and the limits of self-interpretation.
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English
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