Miltons Spenser

Author : Christopher Bond
Publisher : University of Delaware
ISBN 13 : 1611490677
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spenser, Milton, and the Redemption of the Epic Hero written by Christopher Bond and published by University of Delaware. This book was released on 2011-04-29 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies the interplay of theology and poetics in the three great epics of early modern England, the Faerie Queene, Paradise Lost, and Paradise Regained. Bond examines how Spenser and Milton adapted the pattern of dual heroism developed in classical and Medieval works. Challenging the opposition between 'Calvinist,' 'allegorical' Spenser and 'Arminian,' 'dramatic' Milton, this book offers a new understanding of their doctrinal and literary affinities within the European epic tradition.

Author : Elizabeth Baird Hardy
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786428767
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Milton, Spenser and The Chronicles of Narnia written by Elizabeth Baird Hardy and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2006-12-27 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1950, Clive Staples Lewis published the first in a series of children's stories that became The Chronicles of Narnia. The now vastly popular Chronicles are a widely known testament to the religious and moral principles that Lewis embraced in his later life. What many readers and viewers do not know about the Chronicles is that a close reading of the seven-book series reveals the strikingly effective influences of literary sources as diverse as George MacDonald's fantastic fiction and the courtly love poetry of the High Middle Ages. Arguably the two most influential sources for the series are Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queen and John Milton's Paradise Lost. Lewis was so personally intrigued by these two particular pieces of literature that he became renowned for his scholarly studies of both Milton and Spenser. This book examines the important ways in which Lewis so clearly echoes The Faerie Queen and Paradise Lost, and how the elements of each work together to convey similar meanings. Most specifically, the chapters focus on the telling interweavings that can be seen in the depiction of evil, female characters, fantastic and symbolic landscapes and settings, and the spiritual concepts so personally important to C.S. Lewis.

Author : Maureen Quilligan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Milton's Spenser written by Maureen Quilligan and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Maureen Quilligan here examines Spenser's Faerie Queene and Milton's Paradise Lost in an attempt to define the means by which they move their readers, through the power of language, to make ethical and political choices. Quilligan addresses questions that deepen our understanding of the social instrumentality of these epic poems: How do the writers make rhetorical appeals to their readers? How can the reader's interpreting presence be detected in the text? How do Spenser and Milton address arguments to readers specifically in terms of their gender? Asserting that Milton and Spenser were extraordinarily sensitive to the presence of the reader in their construction of narrative, Quilligan looks closely at Milton's appropriation of Spenser's techniques for implicating the reader's self-consciousness in the interpretation of the text. She demonstrates that both Milton and Spenser address specific political arguments to an identifiably female reader, and elevate sexual intimacy to the status of an epic subject"--Jacket.

Author : John Guillory
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231055413
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poetic Authority written by John Guillory and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter C. Herman
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814325711
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Squitter-wits and Muse-haters written by Peter C. Herman and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study offers an approach toward Renaissance literary production, demonstrating that antipoetic sentiment, previously dismissed as an unimportant aspect of Tudor-Stuart literary culture, constituted a significant shaping presence in Sidney, Spenser and Milton.

Author : E. Bellamy
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230522661
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imagining Death in Spenser and Milton written by E. Bellamy and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-09-29 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagining Death in Spenser and Milton assembles a collection of essays on the compelling topic of death in two monumental representatives of the early modern canon, Edmund Spenser and John Milton. The volume draws its impetus from the conviction that death is a central, yet curiously understudied, preoccupation for Spenser and Milton, contending that death - in all its early modern reformations and deformations - is an indispensable backdrop for any attempt to articulate the relationship between Spenser and Milton.

Author : John M. Steadman
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826210173
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moral Fiction in Milton and Spenser written by John M. Steadman and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steadman suggests that these poets, along with most other Renaissance poets, did not actually regard themselves as divinely inspired but, rather, resorted to a common fiction to create the appearance of having special insight into the truth.

Author : Richard Helgerson
Publisher : Berkeley : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520048089
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Self-crowned Laureates written by Richard Helgerson and published by Berkeley : University of California Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Julia M. Walker
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874136258
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medusa's Mirrors written by Julia M. Walker and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of selfhood in Renaissance texts constitutes a scholarly and critical debate of almost unmanageable proportions. The author of this work begins by questioning the strategies with which male writers depict powerful women. Although Spenser's Britomart, Shakespeare's Cleopatra, and Milton's Eve figure selfhood very differently and to very different ends, they do have two significant elements in common: mirrors and transformations that diminish the power of the female self.

Author : Elizabeth Baird Hardy
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786483631
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Milton, Spenser and The Chronicles of Narnia written by Elizabeth Baird Hardy and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-11-21 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1950, Clive Staples Lewis published the first in a series of children’s stories that became The Chronicles of Narnia. The now vastly popular Chronicles are a widely known testament to the religious and moral principles that Lewis embraced in his later life. What many readers and viewers do not know about the Chronicles is that a close reading of the seven-book series reveals the strikingly effective influences of literary sources as diverse as George MacDonald’s fantastic fiction and the courtly love poetry of the High Middle Ages. Arguably the two most influential sources for the series are Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queen and John Milton’s Paradise Lost. Lewis was so personally intrigued by these two particular pieces of literature that he became renowned for his scholarly studies of both Milton and Spenser. This book examines the important ways in which Lewis so clearly echoes The Faerie Queen and Paradise Lost, and how the elements of each work together to convey similar meanings. Most specifically, the chapters focus on the telling interweavings that can be seen in the depiction of evil, female characters, fantastic and symbolic landscapes and settings, and the spiritual concepts so personally important to C.S. Lewis.