Resisting Allegory : : Interpretive Delirium in Spenser's Faerie Queene / / Harry Berger; ed. by David Lee Miller.
Spenser is a delirious poet. He can’t plough straight. What he builds is shiftier, twistier, than anything dreamed up or put down by M. C. Escher. So begins Resisting Allegory, in which the leading Spenser critic of our time sums up a lifelong commitment to the theory and practice of textual interpr...
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Editor’s introduction
- Introduction. On texts and countertexts
- Book one. The legend of holinesse
- Chapter 1. Displacing autophobia in the faerie queene, book 1: ethics, gender, and oppositional reading in the spenserian text
- Book two. The legend of temperaunce
- Chapter 2. Narrative as rhetoric in the faerie queene
- Chapter 3. Wring out the old: squeezing the text, 1951–2001
- Book three. The legend of chastity
- Chapter 4. Resisting translation: britomart in book 3 of spenser’s faerie queene
- Chapter 5. Actaeon at the hinder gate: the stag party in Spenser’s gardens of Adonis
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index