Spenser and Biblical Poetics / / Carol V. Kaske.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Kaske, Carol V.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.) :; 1 table

Carol V. Kaske examines how the form, no less than the theology, of Spenser's writings reveals the influence of the Bible and medieval and Renaissance Biblical hermeneutics. Her approach partakes of both the old historicism and the new. Spenser and Biblical Poetics is the first comprehensive account of the contradictions and inconsistencies in Spenser's imagery-particularly in The Faerie Queene. These and his well-known contradictions in doctrine Kaske accepts and celebrates. She shows that Spenser challenges the reader with problems arising from his endorsement of both Protestant and Catholic traditions. She connects Spenser's contradictory style not only with such religious topics (for example, adiaphorism) but also with secular ones such as colonialism, the conflict between nature and culture, and the policies of the Queen. Spenser and Biblical Poetics makes an indispensable contribution to the history of reading in the Renaissance.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Texts and Transliteration -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Spenser's Bible -- Chapter Two: Structure, Meaning, and Images Repeated in bono et in malo -- Chapter Three: Images That Correct Their Predecessors -- Chapter Four: Propositional Contradictions and Their Resolutions -- Chapter Five: The Episode of the Nymph's Well: Corrective Images, Paradoxes of Law, and Tapinosis -- Conclusion -- Appendix One: Statistics on Availability of Sources at Cambridge -- Appendix Two: Images Repeated in bono et in malo and Treated in This Book -- Works Cited -- Index of Scripture References -- Index of Spenser References -- General Index