The Oxford Handbook of Edmund Spenser (Oxford Handbooks)
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| Rating | : | 4.76 (820 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0198709676 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 852 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Offers a magisterial summation of current scholarshipFor at least the next decade, this will be the place where graduate students first turn." --Studies in English Literature 1500-1900
Richard A. With Howard Erskine-Hill he co-edited Presenting Poetry: Composition, Publication, Reception (1995), and with David Womersley Literary Milieux: Essays in Text and Context presented to Howard Erskine-Hill.. He was elected FBA in 2007. He is author of Joseph Hall: A Study in Satire and Meditation (1
An excellent primer for students of Spenser across a wide range An excellent primer for students of Spenser across a wide range of critical inquiry. Required reading for undergrads interested in in Renaissance studies and graduate students in general. Especially useful are the recommended readings and bibliographies. Worth the price, and superior to the Cambridge Companion on Spenser, which is otherwise equally indispensable for a critical overview. If you're considering buying this or the Cambridge, I recommend buying both. If you can only buy one text, make it this one.. My book. Kathy Cole My son needed it for college.
No 'agreed' view of Spenser emerges from this work or is intended to. The contributors approach the texts from a variety of viewpoints and employ diverse methods of critical interpretation with a view to stimulating informed discussion and future scholarship.. Written by a team of international experts, the forty-two essays in The Oxford Handbook of Edmund Spenser examine the entire canon of Spenser's work and the social and intellectual environments in which it was produced, providing new readings of the texts, extensive analysis of former criticism, and up-to-date bibliographies. Section 5, 'Reception', grapples with the issue of Spenser's effect on succeeding generations of editors, writers, painters, and book-illustrators, while also attempting to identify the most salient and influential strands in the critical tradition. The volume serves as both companion and herald to the Oxford University Press edition of Spenser's Complete Works. Section 2, 'Works', presents a series of new readings of the canon informed by the most recent scholarship. Section 3, 'Poetic Craft', provides a detailed analysis of what Spenser termed the poet's 'cunning', the linguistic, rhetorical, and stylistic skills that distingui