The polliticke courtier : Spenser's The Faerie Queene as a rhetoric of Justice
The author applies rhetorical theory to "The faerie queene", highlighting the importance of rhetoric and locating the inventio, or organizing principle, of Spenser's narrative in the conception of justice.
Print Book, English, 1996
McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal, 1996
x, 245 pages ; 23 cm + (Cloth)
9780773514256, 0773514252
1027275699
Part 1 "Inventio heroicae": decorum, sequence and proof - the problematics of analogy; Redcrosse as courtier; narrative as argument. Part 2 "Iuris comitatus": Britomart ascendant and Venus transcendent; proof by "digressio" - a rhetoric of marriage. Part 3 "Civilitatis causa": Ovid's cone and the rhetoric of law; Radigund, Britomart and the rhetoric of psychomachia; Artegall, Mercilla and Calidore - the ethos of fortune. Part 4 "(who knows not Arlo-Hill?)" - a grammar of closure: Mount Acidale, Arlo Hill and the ethos of pastoral; Envoy and Peroratio - Spenser on Arlo Hill.