Transforming Desire : Erotic Knowledge in Books III and IV of the Faerie Queene / Lauren Silberman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Silberman, Lauren, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Desire in literature.

Love in literature.

Sex in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (203 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [1995]

Summary:

The Faerie Queene anticipates postmodernist concerns with destabilizing language, and Lauren Silberman's stimulating study of Books III and IV of the poem proceeds from the assumption that Spenser has something important to say to us in the late twentieth century. In these books, Spenser exposes fictions of total control for what they are--fictions. The text affirms the value of risk and improvisation over the temptation to seek guarantees. The books examine the role of desire in moving us to function in an uncertain world and tempting us to foreclose that uncertainty by strategies that seek to frame knowledge through total mastery of it.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Britomart's Quest: Fashioning Heroine and Reader

2. The Wounds of Adonis and the Hazards of Desire

3. The Hermaphrodite: Making Sense of the Sensual

4. Book IV: Retrospection and the Undoing of Book III

5. The Legend of Cambel and Triamond: The Joust as a Model of Order

6. Satyrane's Tournament and the Combat of Britomart and Artegall: Extrapolating from Sex and Violence

7. The Allegory of Lust: Imitation at the Limits

8. The Marriage of Thames and Medway and the Union of Florimell and Marinell: Plenitude and Closure

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-520-37876-8

OCLC:

1453644648