The Spenser EncyclopediaA.C. Hamilton 'This masterly work ought to be The Elizabethan Encyclopedia, and no less.' - Cahiers Elizabethains |
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... meaning that the reader must try to recover by engaging the text in interpretative play. Allegory differs from the related forms, parable and fable, by including in its narrative conspicuous directions for interpretation (such as naming ...
... meaning that the reader must try to recover by engaging the text in interpretative play. Allegory differs from the related forms, parable and fable, by including in its narrative conspicuous directions for interpretation (such as naming ...
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... meaning in full because the truth of the book is, finally, the truth of the world (Boccaccio Genealogia 14.10, 12, 17). Because Spenser's phrase 'continued Allegory, or darke conceit' recapitulates traditional ideas of allegory that are ...
... meaning in full because the truth of the book is, finally, the truth of the world (Boccaccio Genealogia 14.10, 12, 17). Because Spenser's phrase 'continued Allegory, or darke conceit' recapitulates traditional ideas of allegory that are ...
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... meaning) and frustrating (because we cannot express it). The existence of an ineffable center of meaning where all interpretations seem to converge is something that the reader is encouraged to accept in order to enjoy the process of ...
... meaning) and frustrating (because we cannot express it). The existence of an ineffable center of meaning where all interpretations seem to converge is something that the reader is encouraged to accept in order to enjoy the process of ...
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... meaning. In so doing, the reader is sensitized to a new gap that has been opened between this interpretative opposition and the rest of the narrative from which it has been taken. The reader therefore uses that opposition to absorb ...
... meaning. In so doing, the reader is sensitized to a new gap that has been opened between this interpretative opposition and the rest of the narrative from which it has been taken. The reader therefore uses that opposition to absorb ...
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... meaning: that which can be deciphered at any point in the text, and that to which all such localized meanings incline. In Guillaume de Lorris' portion of the Romance of the Rose, for example, the significance of each of the arrows that ...
... meaning: that which can be deciphered at any point in the text, and that to which all such localized meanings incline. In Guillaume de Lorris' portion of the Romance of the Rose, for example, the significance of each of the arrows that ...
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