{"product_id":"the-art-of-the-faerie-queene-space-time-and-the-embodied-description-of-the-past-the-manchester-spenser-9780719087325","title":"The Art of the Faerie Queene Space Time and the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Art of The Faerie Queene\u003c\/i\u003e offers a new approach to Spenser’s massive Elizabethan epic, presenting it is as a formally radical and innovative text. Where previous criticism has presented Spenser as a conservative technician, this book explores his unexpected experiments with form in the service of its complex allegories.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Brown’s magisterial monograph revises traditionalist views of Spenser and his place in the literary canon, instead placing him at the forefront of new literary trends and developments.'\u003cbr\u003eMaik Goth, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, \u003ci\u003eThe Review of English Studies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e'Brown (Open Univ.) analyzes the poetic techniques Spenser used in the creation of his epic poem The Faerie Queene. Working systematically, Brown begins with a consideration of the poem’s diction and the way in which Spenser’s choice of words affects the reader. He then proceeds to an examination of lineation and meter, and then to a discussion of Spenser’s rhymes. The final three chapters tackle progressively larger poetic units: the construction of the individual stanza, the ways in which cantos work and network together, and the narrative technique of the individual book.'\u003cbr\u003eB. E. Brandt, emeritus, South Dakota State University, Choice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The Art is organized in a pleasing crescendo, working upwards chapter   by chapter from words, to lines, to rhyme groups, to stanzas, cantos, and   finally the whole poem. At all levels, it proceeds not by deductions from the   allegory, but by induction from linguistic patterns, and Brown’s ambition is   to refresh our reading by close attention to considerations of style …   Brown’s work with Lethbridge on the Concordance has meant that he can never unhear the desultory iambic shuffle   of the stanza going through its courteous motions. But he has remained alert   to those moments – and they are so many; and from reading to reading, are   they ever the same moments twice? – when mere half-hearted ceremony quickens   into revelation. That effect is a distinctive art of The Faerie Queene, to which his book   is now our best guide.'\u003cbr\u003eThe Spenser Review\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: tightrope walking in an afflicted style                                                                    \u003cbr\u003e1: Doubtful words: the vocabulary of \u003ci\u003eThe Faerie Queene\u003c\/i\u003e                                              \u003cbr\u003e2: Uncommon lines: lineation and metre                                                                         \u003cbr\u003e3: Proportionable returns: rhyme, meaning and experience                               \u003cbr\u003e4: Unusual staff: the archaeology of the Spenserian stanza                            \u003cbr\u003e5: Another cast in different hews: canto form                                                                \u003cbr\u003e6: Spacious ways: narratives and narrators                                                                     \u003cbr\u003eAppendix: stanza lead words                                                                                       \u003cbr\u003eBibliography                                                                                                                                \u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48736166052183,"sku":"9780719087325","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-art-of-the-faerie-queene-space-time-and-the-embodied-description-of-the-past-the-manchester-spenser-9780719087325","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}