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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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Romantic Criticism of Edmund Spenser
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Discordant Poetics: Spenser to Milton
… 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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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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Spenser's use of proverbs.
… of a term paper in which I attempted to study Spenser's use of proverbs in The Faerie Queene. My chief endeavor has been to spot Spenser's proverbs and to find parallels to them in his literary environment. I have made especial effort to ferret out the proverbs common to Shakespeare and …
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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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Orientalist representations of Persia in the works of Spenser, Marlowe, Milton, Moore and Morier
… works of the three Renaissance authors included (Spenser, Marlowe, Milton), they are differently inflected and serve different thematic and ideological purposes. It is also suggested that the somewhat nascent orientalism of these authors develops into a more fully-fledged one in Thomas Moore’s …
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In Summaries and Diagrams: Teaching Prayer and Poetry in Lancelot Andrewes and Edmund Spenser
… 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
… 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. Reading …
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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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Spenser's Twin Pillars of the Kingdom: Arthur, Elizabeth, and the Medieval Tradition of Translatio Studii et Imperii
… 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 often …
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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
… 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 represents …
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Representations of Queen Elizabeth I in Edmund Spenser's Pastoral Poetry
This thesis will analyse Edmund Spenser's pastoral poems, The Shepherd's Calendar (1579) and Co/in Clout's Come Home Againe (1595) to uncover allegorical representations of Queen Elizabeth I. The psychoanalytical theories of Jacques Lacan and Julia Kristeva will be appropriated to construct a …
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(Un)veiling nature : a comparative study of Spenser's poetics in Mutabilitie canto seven
This thesis investigates Edmund Spenser's projection of a poetic voice or persona into Mutabilitie Canto VII. I take the perspective that the persona and its poetic are Edmund Spenser's fictions of self-representation and as such are rationalizations of the poetic enterprise as a worthwhile social …
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Love, Lust and Literature in the Late Sixteenth Century
… 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, one …
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'And That Misformed Shape, Misshaped More': The Stranger Mathematics of 'The Faerie Queene'
… modern mathematics and chaos theory, I show how Spenser translated the non-Pythagorean physics of space into a physics of syntax and syllables. This research revises the traditional reading of Spenserian form as obediently upholding Neoplatonist mathematics and cosmology. It also offers a new way …
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'Strange appearance' : the reception of Homer in Renaissance England
… such imitation in the cases of three authors-Spenser, Shakespeare and Chapman -identifying what the 'discovery' of Homer's texts involved in the very different practice of each. I argue that Spenser's reading and use of Homer was motivated and shaped by Homer's connection to other authors that …
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"The alien within": Residual Catholicism and the emerging national identity of post-Reformation England
… by major canonical writers: specifically Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, and William Shakespeare.</p>
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Spenser's "Inward Ey": Poetics, Lexicography, and the Motivations for Edmund Spenser's Linguistic Idealism
Edmund Spenser's concepts of language have been seen as "anti-linguistic" to the extent that his idealism extols the power of thought while depicting speech as a corrupting monster--most notably the Blatant Beast of <italic>The Legend of Courtesy</italic>, Book 6 of <italic>The Faerie …
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