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XXI; 870 S.; graph. Darst.; 8°. Originalleinen mit Schutzumschlag.

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Gutes Ex.; Umschl. etwas berieben. - Englisch. // James Nohrnberg combines an analysis of The Faerie Queene's total form with an exposition of its allegorical content. Organized around a threefold comparison of the "private" and "public" subjects of the poem, this book reconstructs the unifying "greater analogies" of grace, government, and love. The author's examination reveals the coherence of fable and imagery and demonstrates that the poem is a treatise on allegorical manifestations. In conclusion Professor Nohrnberg discusses the "poetic theology" of romance, the fonction mentale of allegory, and the appropriate epistemology for Renaissance fictions. His book not only illuminates The Faerie Queene in its entirety but also comments upon the whole of Spenser's literary-cultural tradition. "This is a remarkable study. Its most obvious characteristic is its great learning, and its most important virtue is its use of learning. The book is an impressive act of historical and cultural reconstruction and imagination."- Paul J. Alpers, University of California, Berkeley // James Nohrnberg is Professor of English and a member of the Center for Advanced Studies, University of Virginia. (Verlagstext) // INHALT : Preface - I. THE ONE AND THE MANY - From Epic to Romance - The Institution of the Hero - Arthurian Torso - Epic Duplex - The House of Wholeness - The Testimony of Mutabilitie - II. THE BOOK OF LIFE - Allegoria; or, The Figure of Fals-Semblant - The Pledging of Faith - The Advent of the Word - The Tree of Life - The Siege of Paradise - Errant Damozell: The Church in the Wilderness - The Beginning of Idolatry - The Man Who Would Not Live - III. BOOKS OF THE GOVERNORS - The Anatomy of Temperance The Temper of Occasion Journey into the Interior The Analogy of Good Order The Art of Equity The Course of Justice The Custodian of Europe - IV. THE CONJUGATION OF THE WORLD - The Hard Begin: Thresholds of Desire - Heroic Eros - The Triumph of Chastity - Gardens of Pleasure - Seminarium Mundi: The Pregnancy and - Primavera of the World Perpetual Generations Single Nature's Double Name The Analogy of Natural Plenitude - V. THE WORD OF GOD AND THE WORDS OF MEN - The Quest for the Faerie Queene - The Word of God and the Words of Men - The Beast Enlarged - The Analogy of Sufficient Grace - Fables of Green Fields - VI. IN DAEMOGORGON'S HALL: THE - FORMING-POWER OF A RENAISSANCE - IMAGINATION - The Triumph of Time The Death of Pan - Analytical Table of Contents Index.