{"product_id":"resisting-allegory-interpretive-delirium-in-spensers-faerie-queene-hardback-9780823285631","title":"Resisting Allegory; Interpretive Delirium in Spenser's Faerie Queene (Hardback) 9780823285631","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eResisting Allegory\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eInterpretive Delirium in Spenser's Faerie Queene\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eHarry Berger (Author), David Lee Miller (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780823285631\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 7 January 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e304 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.7 cm, 0.64 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSpenser is a delirious poet. He can't plough straight. What he builds is shiftier, twistier\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ethan anything dreamed up or put down by M. \u003c\/i\u003eC. \u003ci\u003eEscher. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e So begins \u003ci\u003eResisting Allegory\u003c\/i\u003e, in which the leading Spenser critic of our time sums up a lifelong commitment to the theory and practice of textual interpretation. Spenser's great poem provides the occasion for a searching and comprehensive interdisciplinary exploration of reading practices¾those the author advocates as well as those he adapts or criticizes in entertaining a wide range of critical arguments with his celebrated combination of intellectual generosity and rigorous questioning.\u003cbr\u003e Berger is interested in how details of the poem's language—phrases, images, figures on which we haven't put enough interpretive pressure—disconcert traditional interpretations and big discourses that the poem has often been thought to serve. Central to this volume is an attention to the deployment of gender in conjunction with the Berger's notion of narrative complicity.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eResisting Allegory\u003c\/i\u003e offers a model of theoretically sophisticated criticism that never wavers in its close attention to the text. Berger offers a sustained and brilliantly articulated resistance not only to allegory, as the title indicates, but also to prevalent modes of cultural and historical criticism. As in all of Berger's books, a lucid reflection on questions of method—based on a profound and richly theoretically informed understanding of the workings of language and of the historical situations of the people involved in it—are interwoven with an interpretive practice that serves as an exemplary pedagogical model. Berger attends to historical and political context while deeply respecting the ways in which text can never be reduced to context. \u003cbr\u003e This distinctive and original book makes clear the scope and coherence of the critical vision elaborated Berger has elaborated in a lifetime of seminal and still-challenging critical arguments.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEditor's\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e   vii\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e: On Texts and Countertexts   1\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eBook One:\u003c\/b\u003e The Legend of Holinesse\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1. \u003c\/b\u003eDisplacing Autophobia in \u003ci\u003eThe Faerie Queene\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003cbr\u003e Book 1: Ethics, Gender, and Oppositional Reading\u003cbr\u003e in the Spenserian Text   17\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eBook Two:\u003c\/b\u003e The Legend of Temperaunce\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2.\u003c\/b\u003e Narrative as Rhetoric in The Faerie Queene   103\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3. \u003c\/b\u003eWring Out the Old: Squeezing the Text, 1951–2001   143\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eBook Three:\u003c\/b\u003e The Legend of Chastity\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e4.\u003c\/b\u003e Resisting Translation: Britomart in Book 3 of\u003cbr\u003e Spenser's \u003ci\u003eFaerie Queene\u003c\/i\u003e   173\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e5.\u003c\/b\u003e Actaeon at the Hinder Gate: The Stag Party\u003cbr\u003e in Spenser's Gardens of Adonis   211\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/i\u003e   245\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e   247\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e   289\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52742566379800,"sku":"9780823285631","price":57.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/resisting-allegory-interpretive-delirium-in-spensers-faerie-queene-hardback-9780823285631","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}