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Romantic Criticism of Edmund Spenser
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The literary relationships of Edmund Spenser.
In Spenser's literary relationships may be found the key to his poetic development. Without the records of his friendships, much less would be known about the man Spenser or about the poet. The man played a noble, courageous part in the real world; the poet sought escape to a land of romance where …
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In Summaries and Diagrams: Teaching Prayer and Poetry in Lancelot Andrewes and Edmund Spenser
… and prayer, in printed texts attributed to Edmund Spenser and Lancelot Andrewes. It takes as a starting point the pervasiveness of Ramism at Pembroke College Cambridge during these two writers’ overlapping years spent there as undergraduates, proposing that Ramist ideologies of the short and …
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Sixteenth-century dialogic discourse: an exploration of Protestant selfhood in the writings of Edmund Spenser and his contemporaries
… between the work of the sixteenth-century poet Edmund Spenser and Protestant polemical writers of the 1580s. Previous scholarship has tended to prioritise Spenser’s indebtedness to classical epic and pastoral, underestimating the importance of classical dialogue as a source for his writings. …
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Aristotle and the allegorical aesthetic: Poetry and the limits of philosophy from Alan of Lille to Edmund Spenser
"Kant and Goethe distinguish allegory from symbol by associating allegory with rational abstraction and symbol with the attempt to grasp the divine. By applying this understanding of allegory to the allegorical works in the period when Aristotle dominated philosophical thought, we can correlate the …
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Love, Lust and Literature in the Late Sixteenth Century
… in the sonnet sequences of Sir Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser. Next, since both the afore-mentioned love traditions are based outside of marriage, I will discuss how the reality of the place for marriage in society in the 1590's and the literary representations of love and marriage create a gap, …
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Spenser's Twin Pillars of the Kingdom: Arthur, Elizabeth, and the Medieval Tradition of Translatio Studii et Imperii
… early-modern conceptions of political power in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene and the medieval Arthuriana. Ultimately, I argue that Spenser's careful selection of medieval tropes from Arthurian romances and Chaucer’s poetry expresses a skepticism about the myth of Tudor origins the poet is …
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"The alien within": Residual Catholicism and the emerging national identity of post-Reformation England
… work by major canonical writers: specifically Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, and William Shakespeare.</p>
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From the Womb to the Word: Pregnancy and Pregnancy Metaphors in 16th and 17th Century English Literature
… I examine the works of Sir Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser, manuals of sorts that help inform male writers and readers on how to craft themselves as writers and honorable men. I argue that for male writers, writing and parenting are incongruent activities. Ultimately female authors prevail on …
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Deviant bodies and the reordering of desire: Heterosexuality and nation-building in early modern England
… Focusing on works by John Bale, John Lyly, Edmund Spenser, James I, Thomas Carew, Andrew Marvell, and John Milton, my study argues that the disruptive presence of queer desire plays an integral role in shaping the emerging, interrelated discourses of heterosexuality and nationalism in early …
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How to remember thee?: problems of memorialization in english writing, 1558-1625
… funeral sermons. By reading sermons by Edmund Grindal, Thomas Sparke, Matthew Parker, and William Barlow, I show that figural interpretation allows preachers to use funeral sermons as reformed counterparts to medieval cults of political saints. Chapter two examines elegies written by …
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Discordant Poetics: Spenser to Milton
… modern literature by way of four case studies: Edmund Spenser, Michael Drayton, William Davenant, and John Milton. The second chapter looks at Spenser’s Faerie Queene. I argue that Spenser was influenced by Tasso’s arguments regarding the importance of discord as a key aspect of epic form, which …
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Inanimating Matter: The Aesthetics of Putrefaction in Early Modern English Literature, 1580-1660
… the thesis focus on three early modern writers: Edmund Spenser, John Donne, and Thomas Browne. Chapter One, ‘Spenser’s Slime: Indistinct Matter in The Faerie Queene’, studies that poem’s pervasive fascination with spontaneously generative muck, arguing that slime, mud, and mire offer the poem a …
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"My dere chylde take hede how Trystram doo you tell": Hunting in English Literature, 1486-1603
… how Sir Thomas Wyatt, Michael Drayton, and Edmund Spenser enrich the metaphor with language and procedures from the actual practice of the hunt. With this addition, the poets are able to turn what seems like a failed hunt to their advantage, using their knowledge of the practice to get the …
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Reading "Monstrous" Humans in Reformation England
… In the final chapter of the thesis, I turn to Spenser’s *Faerie Queene*. Bringing the observations of the previous chapters to bear on this text, I argue that aspects of Spenser’s allegory share in the basic assumptions and tendencies of providential emblematisation. Focussing in particular on …
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Rest and Pause in The Faerie Queene
This thesis examines the function of rest in Edmund Spenser’s epic romance poem The Faerie Queene. Noting the pervasive importance of rest to the narrative of all six books, it argues that the states of rest frequently encountered on the level of character have a vital connection to Spenser’s …
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Do feet have mouths? Slander, metaphor, and the body politic in early modern England
Embargo set by: Colleen Fallaw for item 102806 Lift date: 2019-08-10T21:27:21Z Reason: Author requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system
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Erring Knights of Desire: The Romance in Santa Teresa's Libro de la vida and Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene
… into a space for faith. In the second text, Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Spenser uses the capaciousness of the romance genre to express his desires for certain political, economical, and spiritual ends by constructing the Faerie Queene as a representative of Elizabeth I who in turn …
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Questing the Beast: From Malory to Milton
… evidence that Errour and the Blatant Beast from Spenser's <em>The Faerie Queene</em> and Sin from Milton's <em>Paradise Lost</em> are descendants of the Medieval Beast. Her presence in Malory, Spenser, and Milton provides an unexplored link between Malory and Milton that opens Miltonian studies …
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Reading Early Modern English Poetry through the Prisms of Energy and Empire
… house verse and the era’s two major epics, Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene and John Milton’s Paradise Lost. The dissertation concludes that in each of the works under discussion, energy exploitation takes on moral dimensions reflecting ongoing societal dilemmas, problems that worsen over …