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Rest and Pause in The Faerie Queene
… 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 poetic practice. As pauses in the …
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Renaissance econography of the graces : courtesy in book VI of The Faerie Queene
… Acidale is the symbolic core of Book VI of The Faerie Queene, providing the key to Spenser's definition of Courtesy. This thesis intends to further establish a previously overlooked relationship between the iconography of the Graces and the natural and divine characteristics of Spenser's complex …
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'And That Misformed Shape, Misshaped More': The Stranger Mathematics of 'The Faerie Queene'
… Arguing for ‘the stranger mathematics’ of The Faerie Queene, it proposes that this terminology, in prioritising the rational architecture of verse, has long occluded those structures (lexical, prosodic, imagistic) that manifest the more irrational and unpredictable geometries of material …
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English Imperial Selfhood and Semiperipheral Witchcraft in The Faerie Queene, Daemonologie, and The Tempest
… in the first book of Spenser’s 1590 poem The Faerie Queene, James I’s 1597-1603 tract Daemonologie, and Shakespeare’s 1610-11 play The Tempest. The Scottish and Irish witches of these works embody an intractable, powerful racial “Otherness” that undermines the production of faithful English …
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The Narrator's Voice in 'The Faerie Queene,' 'Christs Victorie, and Triumph,' and 'The Locusts, or Apollyonists.'
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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
… 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 represents the potential …
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Comedy in allegory : a study of vision and technique in the Chaucer tradition from The book of the duchess to The faerie queene
Ph.D. University of Kansas, English 1972
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Displacing Mother, Fashioning Father: Elizabeth, Spenser, and the Politics of Parenthood
A study of the Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene and how it both affects and reflects early modern conceptions of parenthood, with special emphasis on the presentation of Queen Elizabeth I as a figurative and political mother.
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Heroines of Spenser.
In the Faerie Queene Spenser has created numerous women worthy of study. Though this particular aspect of the poem has been largely overlooked, the creations of Una, Britomart, Florimel, and even the unsavory Duessa are among Spenser's strongest legacy. Since the Faerie Queene is dedicated to Queen …
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Spenser's "Inward Ey": Poetics, Lexicography, and the Motivations for Edmund Spenser's Linguistic Idealism
… of Courtesy</italic>, Book 6 of <italic>The Faerie Queene</italic>. My thesis re-examines Spenser's antipathies for language, telling the story of his definition of the poet both in terms of his understandings of language and his part in the struggle to legitimize English vernacular. I first …
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Spenser's Twin Pillars of the Kingdom: Arthur, Elizabeth, and the Medieval Tradition of Translatio Studii et Imperii
… 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 often credited with …
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In Summaries and Diagrams: Teaching Prayer and Poetry in Lancelot Andrewes and Edmund Spenser
… prolepsises and summarises every Canto in The Faerie Queene as recognisably generic paratexts with analogies in the Geneva Bible, Thomas Speght’s 1598 collected Chaucer, printed plays, and the Sternhold-Hopkins psalter. Short, simple, and economical, the four-line Arguments seem at first a very …
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Discordant Poetics: Spenser to Milton
… 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 informs his Gerusalemme Liberata at the various levels of style, vocabulary, and narrative. I contend …
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Allegories of Mastery: Sex, Science, and the Making of the Modern Body in Renaissance Utopias
… of gender/sex. I examine this process in The Faerie Queene Book 2, The Legend of Temperance (1596), Phineas Fletcher's The Purple Island (1633), Francis Bacon's New Atlantis (1627), and Margaret Cavendish's The Blazing World (1655) to reveal its incompleteness and contradictions. In …
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Making Space: Gardens and Social Identity in Early Modern English Literature
… Spenser uses representations of gardens in The Faerie Queene (1590) and A View of the State of Ireland (1633; written in 1596) to establish the preeminence of male authority vis-a-vis a female sovereign over Irish subjects, and over the Irish landscape the male colonizers sought to make …
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