Poetry of the Faerie Queene / / Paul J. Alpers.
Professor Alpers argues that Spenser's purpose in The Faerie Queene was not to create a fictional world or to imitate action, but to create and manipulate the reader's response. Individual episodes in the poem are considered by the author as developing psychological experience within the r...
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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] ©1967 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
1935 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (426 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- Part I
- Chapter One: The Rhetorical Mode of Spenser's Narrative
- Chapter Two: Narrative Materials and Stanzas of Poetry
- Chapter Three: Spenser's Poetic Language
- Chapter Four: The Problem of Structure in The Faerie Queene
- Part II
- Chapter Five: Interpretation and the Sixteenth-Century Reader
- Chapter Six: Spenser's Use of Ariosto
- Chapter Seven: Iconography in The Faerie Queene
- Chapter Eight: Interpreting the Cave of Mammon
- Part III
- Chapter Nine: The Nature of Spenser's Allegory
- Chapter Ten: Heroism and Human Strength in Book I
- Chapter Eleven: Heroic and Pastoral in Book III
- Index to The Faerie Queene
- General Index