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Monsters and the Poetic Imagination in the Faerie Queene: 'Most Ugly Shapes, and Horrible Aspects'
Monsters and the Poetic Imagination in the Faerie Queene: 'Most Ugly Shapes, and Horrible Aspects'
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Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene (1590; 1596) is an epic romance featuring dragons, fantastic animals, giants, grotesque human-animal composites, monstrous humans, and other creatures. This monograph explores the role of monstrous beings in the poem and their relationship to Renaissance notions of imagination and poetic creation. It provides a taxonomic inventory of these creatures and reads them as signs interacting with the discourse on the autonomous poet.
\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 376 pages
\n Publication date: 17 May 2019
\n Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene (1590; 1596) is an epic romance that is filled with dragons, fantastic animals, giants, grotesque human-animal composites, monstrous humans, and other creatures. This monograph is the first ever book-length account of Spenser's monsters and their relation to the poetic imagination in the Renaissance. It provides readers with an extended discussion of the role monstrous beings play in Spenser's epic romance and how they are related to the Renaissance notions of the imagination and poetic creation.
This book first offers a taxonomic inventory of the monstrous beings in The Faerie Queene, which analyses them along systematic and anatomical parameters. It then reads monsters and monstrous beings as signs interacting with the early modern discourse on the autonomous poet, who creates a secondary nature through the use of his transformative imagination and fashions monsters as ciphers that need to be interpreted by the reader.
Furthermore, the book explores how Spenser's monsters reflect and challenge Renaissance ideas about the natural world, gender, and power. It argues that Spenser's monsters are not simply evil or monstrous but are complex and multifaceted creatures that reflect the tensions and complexities of the early modern world.
Overall, this monograph is a valuable contribution to the study of Spenser's poetry and the Renaissance, providing new insights into the role of monstrous beings in early modern literature and culture.
\n Weight: 490g\n
Dimension: 142 x 215 x 23 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781526139498\n \n
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