Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"The Faerie Queene"”.
-
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 …
-
Renaissance econography of the graces : courtesy in book VI of The Faerie Queene
It is a critical commonplace that the episode of the Graces dancing on Mount 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 …
-
'And That Misformed Shape, Misshaped More': The Stranger Mathematics of 'The Faerie Queene'
This thesis reframes the normative poetic terminology which (today, as in Elizabethan England) allies poetic structures with humanist cosmic and mathematical ideals: ‘number’; ‘proportion’; ‘measure’; ‘unity’; ‘harmony’; ‘symmetry’ (etc.). Arguing for ‘the stranger mathematics’ of The Faerie …
-
English Imperial Selfhood and Semiperipheral Witchcraft in The Faerie Queene, Daemonologie, and The Tempest
… feminist, and postcolonial approaches, my thesis examines the confluence of early modern Protestant England’s attempts to instate its nationhood on the world stage, its relations with Ireland and Scotland, and English writers’ representations of witchcraft. I discuss the ways that witches …
-
The Narrator's Voice in 'The Faerie Queene,' 'Christs Victorie, and Triumph,' and 'The Locusts, or Apollyonists.'
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-08T22:39:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6812102.pdf: 18060838 bytes, checksum: ad6d691a9c2aec569af47c402eaa5e3f (MD5) Previous issue date: 1968
-
Erring Knights of Desire: The Romance in Santa Teresa's Libro de la vida and Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene
<p>This study explores how romance opens the texts of two sixteenth-century authors. The first is the autobiography, Libro de la vida, of Spanish nun, mystic, and reformer, Santa Teresa de Jésus. Amidst the narrative of her life and her instructions on how to better live the mystical life, Teresa …
-
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
-
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.
-
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 …
-
Spenser's "Inward Ey": Poetics, Lexicography, and the Motivations for Edmund Spenser's Linguistic Idealism
… 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 Queene</italic>. My thesis re-examines …
-
Spenser's Twin Pillars of the Kingdom: Arthur, Elizabeth, and the Medieval Tradition of Translatio Studii et Imperii
Translatio studii et imperii stood as the governing metaphor and principal method of medieval authors to explain changes in political power and romanticize the past. In this project, I examine medieval and early-modern conceptions of political power in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene and the …
-
In Summaries and Diagrams: Teaching Prayer and Poetry in Lancelot Andrewes and Edmund Spenser
This thesis is concerned with intersections between poetry 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 …
-
Allegories of Mastery: Sex, Science, and the Making of the Modern Body in Renaissance Utopias
This project argues that the seventeenth-century transition from the humoral body to the modern, anatomical body depended on constructions 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 …
-
Making Space: Gardens and Social Identity in Early Modern English Literature
"While prescriptive manuals self-consciously tie themselves to actual gardens, poetic texts use representations of gardens to negotiate social position in other domains. Chapter Three analyzes how Spenser uses representations of gardens in The Faerie Queene (1590) and A View of the State of Ireland …
-
Rape and Male Identity in Arthurian Romance, Chrétien de Troyes to Marion Zimmer Bradley
This work explores the evolution of troped rape in Arthurian literature from the 12th century to modern day. I focus on three works: Chrétien de Troyes Erec et Enide, Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, and Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon. In each, I examine the five functions of troped …
-
Sixteenth-century dialogic discourse: an exploration of Protestant selfhood in the writings of Edmund Spenser and his contemporaries
This thesis examines the relationship 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 …
-
Spenser's use of proverbs.
This thesis is the outcome 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 …
-
Questing the Beast: From Malory to Milton
<p>The Questing Beast is a Medieval creature that has received little scholarly attention. Because of her labile nature, she is difficult to identify and therefore challenging to study. When previously analyzed, she has been considered only in her Medieval context. By comparing the Questing Beast …
Page 1 of 2