"The book combinates an inventory of Spenser's creatures with a study of the poem as a monstruos artefact. It first offers a taxonomic account of the monsters in The Faerie Queene, which analyses them along systematic and anatomical parameters. It then treats 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."
"The book combinates an inventory of Spenser's creatures with a study of the poem as a monstruos artefact. It first offers a taxonomic account of the monsters in The Faerie Queene, which analyses them along systematic and anatomical parameters. It then treats 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."
Maik Goth is a Research Assistant at Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction Part I: 'Complicated monsters head and tail': A primer in Spenser, monsters, and teratology 1. The Faerie Queene - A poem of monsters? 2. The monstrous in the early modern period 3. Historical perspectives on the monstrous 4. How to read monsters: A survey of Spenser studies, and teratology Part II: Reading the monster: Taxonomy 5. Taxonomic considerations 6. Monsters and monstrous beings in The Faerie Queene 7. Monstrous animals (1): dragons 8. Monstrous animals (2): four-footed beasts 9. Human-animal composites 10. Giants 11. Monstrous humans 12. Automata 13. Taxonomy reconsidered Part III: Making monsters: The monstrous imagination and the poet's autonomy in The Faerie Queene 14. The problem of the literary monster in the discourse of the poetic imagination 15. The monstrous and the literary heterocosm 16. In Phantastes's chamber 17. Animating the monstrous imagination in The Faerie Queene 18. Poetic creation: Spenser as Prometheus 19. The poet's autonomy and the use of the monstrous imagination 20. Interpreting the monstrous Conclusion Bibliography Index
Introduction Part I: 'Complicated monsters head and tail': A primer in Spenser, monsters, and teratology 1. The Faerie Queene - A poem of monsters? 2. The monstrous in the early modern period 3. Historical perspectives on the monstrous 4. How to read monsters: A survey of Spenser studies, and teratology Part II: Reading the monster: Taxonomy 5. Taxonomic considerations 6. Monsters and monstrous beings in The Faerie Queene 7. Monstrous animals (1): dragons 8. Monstrous animals (2): four-footed beasts 9. Human-animal composites 10. Giants 11. Monstrous humans 12. Automata 13. Taxonomy reconsidered Part III: Making monsters: The monstrous imagination and the poet's autonomy in The Faerie Queene 14. The problem of the literary monster in the discourse of the poetic imagination 15. The monstrous and the literary heterocosm 16. In Phantastes's chamber 17. Animating the monstrous imagination in The Faerie Queene 18. Poetic creation: Spenser as Prometheus 19. The poet's autonomy and the use of the monstrous imagination 20. Interpreting the monstrous Conclusion Bibliography Index
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