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Comic Spenser - Faith, Folly, and the Faerie Queene (Paperback)
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Comic Spenser - Faith, Folly, and the Faerie Queene (Paperback)
Series: The Manchester Spenser
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Loot Price R557
Discovery Miles 5 570
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Once a byword for Protestant sobriety and moral idealism, Spenser
is now better known for his irony and elusiveness. But this study
argues that his sense of humour is still underestimated and
misunderstood. In a series of bold reinterpretations of key
episodes in The Faerie Queene, Victoria Coldham-Fussell
demonstrates that humour goes to the heart of Spenser's moral and
doctrinal preoccupations. She charts amusing rifts between the
poem's ambitious and idealising postures and its Protestant vision
of corruptible human nature; yet contends that Spenserian humour is
an expression of tolerance and faith as well as an instrument of
satire. This study's application of modern comic theory to a key
text of the English Renaissance and its detailed survey of the
comic influences that shaped Spenser's literary milieu will be
indispensable to teachers of the Renaissance period, to students of
comic literature, and to established Spenserians. -- .
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