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Spenser in the Moment (Hardcover)
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Spenser in the Moment (Hardcover)
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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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