Beschreibung:
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.
Editor¿s Introduction | viiIntroduction: On Texts and Countertexts | 1Book One: The Legend of Holinesse1. Displacing Autophobia in The Faerie QueeneBook 1: Ethics, Gender, and Oppositional Readingin the Spenserian Text | 17Book Two: The Legend of Temperaunce2. Narrative as Rhetoric in The Faerie Queene | 1033. Wring Out the Old: Squeezing the Text, 1951¿2001 | 143Book Three: The Legend of Chastity4. Resisting Translation: Britomart in Book 3 ofSpenser¿s Faerie Queene | 1735. Actaeon at the Hinder Gate: The Stag Partyin Spenser¿s Gardens of Adonis | 211Acknowledgments | 245Notes | 247Index | 289