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In Resisting Allegory, the leading Spenser critic of our time sums up a lifelong commitment to the theory and practice of textual interpretation. Central to this volume is an attention to the deployment of gender in conjunction with the Berger's notion of narrative complicity, all built on close attention to the text.

Table of Contents

Editor’s Introduction | vii
Introduction: On Texts and Countertexts | 1
Book One: The Legend of Holinesse
1. Displacing Autophobia in The Faerie Queene,
Book 1: Ethics, Gender, and Oppositional Reading
in the Spenserian Text | 17
Book Two: The Legend of Temperaunce
2. Narrative as Rhetoric in The Faerie Queene | 103
3. Wring Out the Old: Squeezing the Text, 1951–2001 | 143
Book Three: The Legend of Chastity
4. Resisting Translation: Britomart in Book 3 of
Spenser’s Faerie Queene | 173
5. Actaeon at the Hinder Gate: The Stag Party
in Spenser’s Gardens of Adonis | 211
Acknowledgments | 245
Notes | 247
Index | 289

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      Publisher Fordham University Press
      Published 7 January 2020
      ISBN-13 9780823285631
      978-0823285631
      ISBN-10 0823285634
      Also in:
      Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600 Literary studies: poetry and poets

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In Resisting Allegory, the leading Spenser critic of our time sums up a lifelong commitment to the theory and practice of textual interpretation. Central to this volume is an attention to the deployment of gender in conjunction with the Berger's notion of narrative complicity, all built on close attention to the text.

      Table of Contents

      Editor’s Introduction | vii
      Introduction: On Texts and Countertexts | 1
      Book One: The Legend of Holinesse
      1. Displacing Autophobia in The Faerie Queene,
      Book 1: Ethics, Gender, and Oppositional Reading
      in the Spenserian Text | 17
      Book Two: The Legend of Temperaunce
      2. Narrative as Rhetoric in The Faerie Queene | 103
      3. Wring Out the Old: Squeezing the Text, 1951–2001 | 143
      Book Three: The Legend of Chastity
      4. Resisting Translation: Britomart in Book 3 of
      Spenser’s Faerie Queene | 173
      5. Actaeon at the Hinder Gate: The Stag Party
      in Spenser’s Gardens of Adonis | 211
      Acknowledgments | 245
      Notes | 247
      Index | 289

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