Richard Danson Brown

The art of The Faerie Queene

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Produktbeschreibung

The Art of The Faerie Queene offers a new approach to Spenserâ s massive Elizabethan epic, presenting it is as a formally radical and innovative text. Where previous criticism has presented Spenser as a conservative technician, this book explores his unexpected experiments with form in the service of its complex allegories. -- .

Produktdetails

• The Manchester Spenser
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 428g
• ISBN-13: 9781526151797
• ISBN-10: 1526151790
• Artikelnr.: 58593048

Autorenporträt

Richard Danson Brown is Senior Lecturer in English at The Open University J.B. Lethbridge is Lecturer in English at Tübingen University

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: tightrope walking in an afflicted style 1: Doubtful words:
the vocabulary of The Faerie Queene 2: Uncommon lines: lineation and metre
3: Proportionable returns: rhyme, meaning and experience 4: Unusual staff:
the archaeology of the Spenserian stanza 5: Another cast in different hews:
canto form 6: Spacious ways: narratives and narrators Appendix: stanza lead
words Bibliography Index