Author: Anne Lake Prescott
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526179377
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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For nearly half a century Anne Lake Prescott has been a force and an inspiration in Renaissance studies. A force, because of her unique blend of learning and wit and an inspiration through her tireless encouragement of younger scholars and students. Her passion has always been the invisible bridge across the Channel: the complex of relations, literary and political, between Britain and France. The essays in this long-awaited collection range from Edmund Spenser to John Donne, from Clément Marot to Pierre de Ronsard. Prescott has a particular fondness for King David, who appears several times; and the reader will encounter chessmen, bishops, male lesbian voices and Roman whores. Always Prescott’s immense erudition is accompanied by a sly and gentle wit that invites readers to share her amusement. Reading her is a joyful education.
Author: Yulia Ryzhik
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 152611738X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 421
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This edited collection of essays, part of The Manchester Spenser series, brings together leading Spenser and Donne scholars to challenge the traditionally dichotomous view of these two major poets and to shift the critical conversation towards a more holistic, relational view of the two authors’ poetics and thought.
Author: Michael Hattaway
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9781444319026
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1264
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In this revised and greatly expanded edition of theCompanion, 80 scholars come together to offer an originaland far-reaching assessment of English Renaissance literature andculture. A new edition of the best-selling Companion to EnglishRenaissance Literature, revised and updated, with 22 newessays and 19 new illustrations Contributions from some 80 scholars including Judith H.Anderson, Patrick Collinson, Alison Findlay, Germaine Greer,Malcolm Jones, Arthur Kinney, James Knowles, Arthur Marotti, RobertMiola and Greg Walker Unrivalled in scope and its exploration of unfamiliar literaryand cultural territories the Companion offers new readingsof both ‘literary’ and ‘non-literary’texts Features essays discussing material culture, sectarian writing,the history of the body, theatre both in and outside theplayhouses, law, gardens, and ecology in early modern England Orientates the beginning student, while providing advancedstudents and faculty with new directions for theirresearch All of the essays from the first edition, along with therecommendations for further reading, have been reworked orupdated
Author: Ilona Bell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521630078
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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This 1999 book offers an original study of lyric form and social custom in the Elizabethan age. Ilona Bell explores the tendency of Elizabethan love poems not only to represent an amorous thought, but to conduct the courtship itself. Where studies have focused on courtiership, patronage and preferment at court, her focus is on love poetry, amorous courtship, and relations between Elizabethan men and women. The book examines the ways in which the tropes and rhetoric of love poetry were used to court Elizabethan women (not only at court and in the great houses, but in society at large) and how the women responded to being wooed, in prose, poetry and speech. Bringing together canonical male poets and women writers, Ilona Bell investigates a range of texts addressed to, written by, read, heard or transformed by Elizabethan women, and charts the beginnings of a female lyric tradition.
Author: Tamsin Badcoe
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526139693
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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Edmund Spenser and the romance of space seeks to gauge the roles that aesthetic subjectivity and the imagination play in early modern spatial and textual practices.
Author: Kathryn Walls
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781781706510
Category : Christianity and literature
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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This full-length study is devoted to Una, the beleaguered but ultimately triumphant heroine of book one of 'The Faerie Queene'. Challenging the standard identification of Spenser's Una with the post-Reformation Church in England, it argues that she stands, rather, for the community of the redeemed, the invisible Church, whose membership is known by God alone.
Author: Sukanta Chaudhuri
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526127008
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 277
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This volume is an essential supplement to Pastoral poetry of the English Renaissance: An anthology (2016). The full-length Introduction examines English Renaissance pastoral against the history of the mode from antiquity to the present, with its multifarious themes and social affinities. The study covers many genres – eclogue, lyric, georgic, country-house poem, ballad, romantic epic, prose romance – and major practitioners – Theocritus, Virgil, Sidney, Spenser, Drayton and Milton. It also charts the circulation of pastoral texts, with implications for all early modern poetry. All poems in the Anthology were edited from the original texts; the Companion documents the sources and variant readings in unprecedented detail for a cross-section of early modern poetry. Includes notes on the poets and analytical indices. The Companion is indispensable not only to users of the Anthology but to all students and advanced scholars of Renaissance poetry.
Author: C. S. Lewis
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 113
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The Four Loves is a 1960 book by C. S. Lewis which explores the nature of love from a Christian and philosophical perspective through thought experiments. The book was based on a set of radio talks from 1958 which had been criticized in the U.S. at the time for their frankness about sex. C.S. Lewis examines storge or empathy love; philia, friendship love; eros, romantic love; and agape, or God love. Excerpt: "GOD is love," says St. John. When I first tried to write this book I thought that his maxim would provide me with a very plain highroad through the whole subject. I thought I should be able to say that human loves deserved to be called loves at all just in so far as they resembled that Love which is God."
Author: Lisa Klein
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Stressing the importance of sonnets as producers as well as products of Elizabethan culture, this book is a work of cultural poetics in the broadest sense of the term. Yet its new interpretation of Sidney's importance to his contemporary sonneteers is grounded in the careful analysis of literary texts. In sum, it contends that Greville, Daniel, and Spenser, while working in conventional forms and in the bright shadow of Sidney, nonetheless demonstrate the authority of the individual poet to pressure conventional forms and to refashion Sidney's heroic image.
Author: Ken Borris
Publisher: Manchester Spenser
ISBN: 9781526133458
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Recontextualizing Edmund Spenser's Shepheardes Calender in relation to book history, this study analyses the first edition of 1579 as a material text, and provides the first clearly detailed facsimile available as a book. By illuminating the 1579 Calender's development, this volume much advances understanding of Spenser and Elizabethan culture.
