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Exemplary Spenser - Visual and Poetic Pedagogy in The Faerie Queene (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Exemplary Spenser - Visual and Poetic Pedagogy in The Faerie Queene (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Exemplary Spenser analyses the didactic poetics of The Faerie
Queene, renewing attention to its avowed attempt to "fashion a
gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline" and
examining how Spenser mobilises his pedagogic concerns through the
reading experience of the poem. Grogan's investigation shows how
Spenser transacts the public life of the nation heuristically,
prompting a reflective reading experience that compels engagement
with other readers, other texts and other political communities.
Negotiating between competing pedagogical traditions, she shows how
Spenser's epic challenges the more conservative prevailing impulses
of humanist pedagogy to espouse a radical didacticism capable of
inventing a more active and responsible reader. To this end, Grogan
examines a wide variety of Spenser's techniques and sources,
including Philip Sidney's Defence of Poesy and the powerful
visually-couched epistemological paradigms of early modern culture,
ekphrasis among them. Importantly, Grogan examines how Spenser's
didactic poetics was crucially shaped by readings of the Greek
historian Xenophon's Cyropaedia, a text and influence previously
overlooked by critics. Grogan concludes by reading the last book of
The Faerie Queene, the Legend of Courtesy, as an attempt to
reconcile his own didactic sources and poetics with the more recent
tastes of his contemporaries for a courtesy theory less concerned
with "vertuous and gentle discipline". Returning to the early
modern reading experience, Grogan shows the sophisticated
intertextual dexterity that goes into reading Spenser, where
Spenserian pedagogy lies not simply in the textual body of the
poem, but also in the act of reading it.
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