Spenser and Biblical Poetics / Carol V. Kaske.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaske, Carol V., 1933-2016, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599--Religion.

Spenser, Edmund.

Bible--In literature.

Bible.

Christian poetry, English--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

Christian poetry, English.

Christianity and literature--England--History--16th century.

Christianity and literature.

Poetics--History--16th century.

Poetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 210 pages)

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

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.

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

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

1-5017-4454-2

OCLC:

1121058202