The Spenser EncyclopediaA.C. Hamilton 'This masterly work ought to be The Elizabethan Encyclopedia, and no less.' - Cahiers Elizabethains Edmund Spenser remains one of Britain's most famous poets. With nearly 700 entries this Encyclopedia provides a comprehensive one-stop reference tool for: * appreciating Spenser's poetry in the context of his age and our own * understanding the language, themes and characters of the poems * easy to find entries arranged by subject. |
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... LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGE ARTS Renaissance CONTEMPORARIES, LITERARY MYTH, MYTHOGRAPHY, LEGEND THEMES AND TOPOI GENRES AND FORMS PLACES IN The Faerie Queene VIRTUES AND VICES HISTORY POETRY, POETICS WOMEN, MARRIAGE, SEXUALITY IMITATIONS AND ...
... LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGE ARTS Renaissance CONTEMPORARIES, LITERARY MYTH, MYTHOGRAPHY, LEGEND THEMES AND TOPOI GENRES AND FORMS PLACES IN The Faerie Queene VIRTUES AND VICES HISTORY POETRY, POETICS WOMEN, MARRIAGE, SEXUALITY IMITATIONS AND ...
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... Language and language arts archaism Ciceronianism copia dialect dialogue, poetic dialogue, prose epideictic etymology hieroglyphics language, general logic morphology and syntax names, naming neologism pronunciation proverbs punctuation ...
... Language and language arts archaism Ciceronianism copia dialect dialogue, poetic dialogue, prose epideictic etymology hieroglyphics language, general logic morphology and syntax names, naming neologism pronunciation proverbs punctuation ...
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... language on human sexuality. (In the complaint, '[man] is subject and predicate: one and the same term is given a double application. Man here extends too far the laws of grammar' Alanus ed 1980:68.) This complex debate, echoed by the ...
... language on human sexuality. (In the complaint, '[man] is subject and predicate: one and the same term is given a double application. Man here extends too far the laws of grammar' Alanus ed 1980:68.) This complex debate, echoed by the ...
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... language to express something that is always beyond it. It is here that the allegorical poet will stage the breakdown of language into paradox (FQ VII vii 13) or will insist that to get past the barrier it is necessary to resort to ...
... language to express something that is always beyond it. It is here that the allegorical poet will stage the breakdown of language into paradox (FQ VII vii 13) or will insist that to get past the barrier it is necessary to resort to ...
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... language We have seen that allegory as convention generates commentary in its audience and at the same time regulates the play of such commentary within a clearly defined set of contexts: politics, morality, cosmology, and religion. At ...
... language We have seen that allegory as convention generates commentary in its audience and at the same time regulates the play of such commentary within a clearly defined set of contexts: politics, morality, cosmology, and religion. At ...
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