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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc History |
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Named Person: | Edmund Spenser; Edmund Spenser; Edmund Spenser; Edmund Spenser; Edmund Spenser; Edmund Spenser; Edmund Spenser; Edmund Spenser; Edmund Spenser; Edmund Spenser; Edmund Spenser; Edmund (1552?-1599) Spenser; Edmund Spenser; Edmund Spenser |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Darryl J Gless |
ISBN: | 0521434742 9780521434744 |
OCLC Number: | 29466038 |
Description: | xii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | 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. Discovering holiness -- 7. "Spenser" and dogmatic mutability. |
Responsibility: | Darryl J. Gless. |
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Abstract:
The extent to which theological doctrine informs the work of Edmund Spenser has long been a matter of controversy. Darryl J. Gless demonstrates that theological texts, like literary ones, are subject to interpretation, and shows how theological perspectives can enrich the reader's interpretation of Spenser's poetry.
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