Spenser in the Moment

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

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Spenser in the Moment collects specially commissioned essays critical of established readings, each of which in surveying the state of the art attempts radically to unsettle our conception of the poetry of Edmund Spenser (1552–1599). The editors were drawn together by a shared restlessness with the canonical Spenser, and a sense that attention especially to Spenser’s musical qualities, and the distinctiveness of his poetic style compared with that of his contemporaries, could display exciting new paths forward. Scholars from three continents contribute bracing reviews of Spenser’s relationship with his classical sources, with religious history, and the history of the book. Two essays consider Spenser and music, both music in Spenser’s works, and Spenser’s works in the music of his time. Two working poets inaugurate the final group of essays on Spenser’s poetry, with original, irreverent poetry reflecting and riffing on Spenser. The essays argue for various versions of revolution: one mixing aesthetics and sex, another diagnosing widespread fallacies (“expressivist” and “dramatistic”) made in reading Spenser, and the last arguing for a Spenser not of enormous interlocking networks, but of the moment: that the primary Spenserian structure is that of a moment of stillness-in-motion. With so much change behind us already in this young century, another series of changes emerges from recent work, and a sense of expectation, as of held breath, seems to pervade the discipline—that is the moment that this volume attempts to capture and nourish.

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Utgivningsdatum2017-04-12
Mått145 x 232 x 20 mm
Vikt404 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor244
FörlagAssociated University Presses
ISBN9781611478808

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PrefaceAbbreviations1 Introduction: Notes toward a New Spenser Paul J. Hecht Classical, Medieval, Material2 Reinventing the Wheel: Spenser’s Virgilian CareerSyrithe Pugh3 Spenser and the “Medieval” Past: A Question of DefinitionKathryn Walls4 Spenser and Book History Elisabeth ChaghafiSpenser and Music5 Music in Spenser David Scott Wilson-Okamura6 Spenser in Music Gavin AlexanderMeter/Moment7 Irreverent SpenserianaApril Bernard, K. Silem Mohammad8 Queer/Ordinary: Thinking Spenserian Sex and AestheticsPaul J. Hecht9 The Poetry of The Faerie QueeneJ. B. Lethbridge10 Notes on Reading in The Faerie Queene: From Moment to MomentGordon TeskeySelected BibliographyContributorsIndex

Hecht and Lethbridge see themselves as spearheading a movement that will replace the orthodoxies of New Criticism (and its progeny, including New Historicism) with unorthodox—indeed, revolutionary—ways of reading Edmund Spenser’s poetry. . . .[The book beings ]with Syrithe Pugh’s superb account of how Spenser imitates Virgil. Every Spenserian will want to read the excellent middle section, 'Spenser and Music,' with its complementary essays by David Scott Wilson-Okamura and Gavin Alexander. . . .The promised 'new era of Spenser scholarship' begins to take shape in the final section ('Meter/Moment'), with Hecht’s essay 'Queer/Ordinary: Thinking Spenserian Sex and Aesthetics,' Lethbridge's extension of his case against 'expressivist' reading, and Gordon Teskey's bravura display on The Faerie Queene as 'a poem of moments.'. . . .Summing Up: Highly recommended.