Rebeca Helfer

Spenser's Ruins and the Art of Recollection (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Beginning with the origins of mnemonic strategies in epic tales, Helfer examines how the art of memory speaks to debates about poetry and its place in culture from Plato to Spenser's present day.

HelferRebeca:

Rebeca Helfer is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Irvine.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781442660571
• Artikelnr.: 48945308

Autorenporträt

Rebeca Helfer is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Irvine.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Preface: Preamble to Ruin
1 Spenser’s Complaints: The Fall of Troy, The Ruin of Rome, and tThe Art of
Recollection
2 The Death of the ‘New Poete’: Ruin and Recollection in The Shepheardes
Calender
3 The Ruines of Time and the Art of Recollection
4 ‘The Methode of a Poet Historical [and] … an Historiographer’:
Recollecting the Past in the 1590 Faerie Queene
5 Golden Age Returns: Recollecting Prehistory as Present in Spenser’s Later
Work
Conclusion: Misprision and Freedom: Ruining and Recollecting the Bower of
Bliss
Notes
Bibliography
Index