The poetry of the Faerie queene /

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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מחבר ראשי: Alpers, Paul J.
פורמט: Licensed eBooks
שפה:אנגלית
יצא לאור: [Princeton, N.J.] : Princeton University Press 1967.
סדרה:Princeton legacy library.
גישה מקוונת:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt183pnjz
תוכן הענינים:
  • The rhetorical mode of Spenser's narrative
  • Narrative materials and stanzas of poetry
  • Spenser's poetic language
  • The problem of structure in The faerie queene
  • Interpretation and the sixteenth-century reader
  • Spenser's use of Ariosto
  • Iconography in The faerie queene
  • Interpreting the Cave of Mammon
  • The nature of Spenser's allegory
  • Heroism and human strength in Book I
  • Heroic and pastoral in Book III.