Spenser's Allegory : : The Anatomy of Imagination / / Isabel Gamble MacCaffrey.

Isabel MacCaffrey contends that, in allegory, the mind makes a model of itself, and she shows that The Faerie Queene, mirroring as it does the mind's structure, is both a treatise on and an example of the central role that imagination plays in human life.Viewing the poem as a model of Spenser&#...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]
©1976
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 1363
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Physical Description:1 online resource (460 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • I. Allegory and Imagination
  • II. Re-Mythologizing: Book I as Context
  • III. "Lovers Deare Debates": The Middle Books
  • IV. Book VI: The Paradise Within
  • Conclusion: The Promised End in Mutabilitie
  • Index
  • Backmatter