Resisting Allegory: Interpretive Delirium in Spenser's Faerie Queene

Harry Berger

Published by Fordham University Press 2020

Resisting Allegory

Interpretive Delirium in Spenser's Faerie Queene

Harry Berger
Edited by: David Lee Miller

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823285655

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In Resisting Allegory, the leading Spenser critic of our time sums up a lifelong commitment to the theory and practice of textual interpretation. Central to this volume is an attention to the deployment of gender in conjunction with the Berger’s notion of narrative complicity, all built on close attention to the text.

This book offers a model of theoretically sophisticated criticism that never wavers in its close attention to the text.

Author / Editor information

Berger Harry :

Harry Berger, Jr., is Professor Emeritus of Literature and Art History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His most recent books include Figures of a Changing World: Metaphor and the Emergence of Modern Culture and A Fury in the Words: Love and Embarrassment in Shakespeare’s Venice (both Fordham).

Harry Berger, Jr., is Professor Emeritus of Literature and Art History and a Fellow of Cowell College at the University of California, Santa Barbara. A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is the author of fourteen books, most recently Harrying: Skills of Offense in Shakespeare's Henriad (Fordham, 2016).

Miller David Lee :

David Lee Miller is Carolina Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina. He is the author of Dreams of the Burning Child: Sacrifiial Sons and the Father’s Witness (Cornell, 2003) and The Poem’s Two Bodies: The Poetics of the 1590 Faerie Queene (Princeton, 1988).Harry Berger, Jr. (Author)
Harry Berger, Jr., is Professor Emeritus of Literature and Art History and a Fellow of Cowell College at the University of California, Santa Barbara. A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is the author of fourteen books, most recently Harrying: Skills of Offense in Shakespeare's Henriad (Fordham, 2016).

David Lee Miller (Edited By)
David Lee Miller is Carolina Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina. He is the author of Dreams of the Burning Child: Sacrifiial Sons and the Father’s Witness (Cornell, 2003) and The Poem’s Two Bodies: The Poetics of the 1590 Faerie Queene (Princeton, 1988).

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Berger’s new volume on Spenser’s narrative poem will be essential to all Renaissance scholars. Like Berger’s earlier books, Resisting Allegory develops and complicates our thinking on The Faerie Queene along a number of fronts. Berger’s notion of narrative complicity, familiar now through his famous readings of Shakespeare, is richer and more complex for its encounter with Spenser and with gender analysis.

Since his first book in 1957, Harry Berger has remained a model for each successive generation of Spenser scholars—to many of us, the leading figure of our lifetimes. Resisting Allegory, a beguiling exercise in his late style, continues the lifelong work of engaging the allegorical project of The Faerie Queene in intellectually expansive ways. Every reader and scholar of Spenser will want this book.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Editor’s introduction David Lee Miller Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction. On texts and countertexts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Book one. The legend of holinesse
Chapter 1. Displacing autophobia in the faerie queene, book 1: ethics, gender, and oppositional reading in the spenserian text Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
Book two. The legend of temperaunce
Chapter 2. Narrative as rhetoric in the faerie queene Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
Chapter 3. Wring out the old: squeezing the text, 1951–2001 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
Book three. The legend of chastity
Chapter 4. Resisting translation: britomart in book 3 of spenser’s faerie queene Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
Chapter 5. Actaeon at the hinder gate: the stag party in Spenser’s gardens of Adonis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289

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Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 304
Keywords: Spenser; The Faerie Queene; the New Criticism; allegory; theory of interpretation

eBook

Published: January 7, 2020
ISBN: 9780823285655