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Interpretation and Theology in Spenser

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  • Date Published: September 2005
  • availability: Available
  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9780521020299

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  • The extent to which a knowledge of sixteenth-century theological doctrines can help readers interpret the works of Edmund Spenser has long been a matter of controversy. In Interpretation and Theology in Spenser Darryl J. Gless offers a new approach: drawing on recent literary theories, he focuses less on what Spenser intended than on the ways readers might construe both the poet's works and the theological doctrines which those works invoke. Professor Gless demonstrates the seldom-admitted fact that theological texts, like literary ones, are subject to the interpretive activity of readers. Informed by this approach to Elizabethan theology, he develops a thorough analysis of the first, most widely studied, book of Spenser's Elizabethan epic The Faerie Queene. He concludes with a fast-moving survey of ways in which theological perspectives can enrich significant moments in later, less overtly theological, passages of Spenser's great poem.

    • Genuinely new approach to critically controversial questions about the relationship between theology and Spenser's poetry
    • Illuminating new reading of major Renaissance text, The Faerie Queene
    • Concise and readable explanation, unavailable elsewhere, of major sixteenth-century religious doctrines
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    • Date Published: September 2005
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9780521020299
    • length: 288 pages
    • dimensions: 234 x 155 x 15 mm
    • weight: 0.407kg
    • contains: 2 b/w illus.
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    Acknowledgements
    Introduction: reading theology/reading The Faerie Queene
    1. Holiness: consensus, complexity, contradiction
    2. Multiplying perspectives
    3. Constructing evil
    4. Achieving sin
    5. Reconstructing heroism
    6. Recovering holiness
    7. 'Spenser' and dogmatic mutability
    Notes
    Index.

  • Author

    Darryl J. Gless, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

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