Maik Goth

Monsters and the poetic imagination in The Faerie Queene

'Most ugly shapes, and horrible aspects'

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first ever book-length account of Spenser's monsters and their relation to the poetic imagination in the Renaissance.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 530g
• ISBN-13: 9781526139498
• ISBN-10: 1526139499
• Artikelnr.: 54030839

Autorenporträt

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