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Poetry of the Faerie Queene: (Princeton Legacy Library)
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Paul J. Alpers (Author)
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Professor Alpers argues that Spenser's purpose in The Faerie Queene was not to create a fictional world or to imitate action, but to create and manipulate the reader's response. Individual episodes in the poem are considered by the author as developing psychological experience within the reader rather than as actions to be observed. Part I is an examination of the technical poetic devices Spenser used to develop the reader's response to the action of the poem. Part II concerns interpretation, iconography, and source material. Part III draws on the arguments and conclusions of the first two parts to discuss, in a general way, the nature of Spenser's poetry, including Spenserian allegory. Originally published in 1967. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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- Contributor: Paul J. Alpers
- Imprint: Princeton University Press
- ISBN13: 9780691649597
- Number of Pages: 426
- Packaged Dimensions: 152x235mm
- Packaged Weight: 765
- Format: Hardback
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Release Date: 2019-06-20
- Series: Princeton Legacy Library
- Binding: Hardback
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