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Author Kaske, Carol V., author

Title Spenser and Biblical Poetics / Carol V. Kaske
Published Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]
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Contents Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Texts and Transliteration -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Spenser's Bible -- Chapter Two: Structure, Meaning, and Images Repeated in bono et in malo -- Chapter Three: Images That Correct Their Predecessors -- Chapter Four: Propositional Contradictions and Their Resolutions -- Chapter Five: The Episode of the Nymph's Well: Corrective Images, Paradoxes of Law, and Tapinosis -- Conclusion -- Appendix One: Statistics on Availability of Sources at Cambridge -- Appendix Two: Images Repeated in bono et in malo and Treated in This Book -- Works Cited -- Index of Scripture References -- Index of Spenser References -- General Index
Summary Carol V. Kaske examines how the form, no less than the theology, of Spenser's writings reveals the influence of the Bible and medieval and Renaissance Biblical hermeneutics. Her approach partakes of both the old historicism and the new. Spenser and Biblical Poetics is the first comprehensive account of the contradictions and inconsistencies in Spenser's imagery--particularly in The Faerie Queene. These and his well-known contradictions in doctrine Kaske accepts and celebrates. She shows that Spenser challenges the reader with problems arising from his endorsement of both Protestant and Catholic traditions. She connects Spenser's contradictory style not only with such religious topics (for example, adiaphorism) but also with secular ones such as colonialism, the conflict between nature and culture, and the policies of the Queen. Spenser and Biblical Poetics makes an indispensable contribution to the history of reading in the Renaissance
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Sep 2019)
SUBJECT Spenser, Edmund -- Quellen und Vorbilder. idsbb
Spenser, Edmund -- "Bible". rero
Spenser, Edmund. swd
Bibel gnd
Subject Christian poetry, English -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
Christianity and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century
Poetics -- History -- 16th century
Christian poetry, English -- History and criticism
RELIGION -- Biblical Meditations -- General.
Christian poetry, English
Christian poetry, English -- Early modern
Christianity and literature
Poetics
Lyrik
Bijbel.
Literatuurtheorie.
Spenser, Edmund -- Christentum.
England
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781501744549
1501744542