Description
Book SynopsisIn 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 ContentsEditor’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
