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Griffin, Tobias David. "Grey areas : Edmund Spenser's 'Faerie Queene' and the Irish colonial mindset /." view abstract or download file of text, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3095247.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2003.<br>Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 215-221). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

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Atkin, Graham. "Rethinking friendship : sequence and structure in the Faerie Queene Book IV." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.366392.

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Pope, Nancy Patricia. "National history in the heroic poem : a comparison of the "Aeneid" and the "Faerie Queene /." New York ; London : Garland, 1990. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35551861m.

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Danker, Jennifer. "Spenser's revaluation of femininity in the Faerie Queene." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=56950.

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Renaissance patriarchy maintained very clear distinctions between what was appropriately "masculine" and "feminine." Modern feminist criticism and research have tried to dispel some of the old illusions, and so they offer a fresh approach to evaluating the personal and social implications of gender in the Renaissance. Such perspectives can be specifically applied for enhanced appreciation of Spenser's Faerie Queene, after an initial assessment of Renaissance patriarchy itself.<br>The Faerie Queene, we find, questions many important conventions of gender roles in Renaissance patriarchal society

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Pal, Nandinee. "The warrior and the rose : Spenser's iconography of chastity in The faerie queene." Thesis, McGill University, 1987. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=74055.

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Chishty-Mujahid, Nadya Qamar. ""Coloured with an historicall fiction" : the topical and moral import of characterization in Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene." Thesis, McGill University, 2001. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=38170.

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This dissertation focuses on how a series of major characters in Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene (Prince Arthur, Britomart, Duessa, Artegall, and those characters that figure forth the poet's sovereign, Elizabeth I) enhance a reader's appreciation of the epic's complex topical allegory and its moral implications. By closely interpreting the respective functions and narratives of these characters, and additionally examining some of Spenser's main techniques of character development, I propose that the above figures both articulate and underscore central aspects of the poet's politically encomias

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Woodcock, Mathew. "Renaissance elf-fashioning : the rhetoric of fairy in Spenser's The Faerie Queene." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.365457.

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Goodrich, Jean Nowakowski. "Emergent Discourses of Difference in Spenser's Faerie Queene." Diss., Tucson, Arizona : University of Arizona, 2005. http://etd.library.arizona.edu/etd/GetFileServlet?file=file:///data1/pdf/etd/azu%5Fetd%5F1119%5F1%5Fm.pdf&type=application/pdf.

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Van, Zyl Liezel. "Alternative worlds in Spenser's The faerie queene." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/51574.

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Thesis (MA)-- Stellenbosch University, 2000.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Although The Faerie Queene was written in 1589 as a commentary on and criticism of issues which would concern many sixteenth-century Protestant subjects of Queen Elizabeth of England, Spenser creates in his text worlds which even a twentieth-century reader can find significant. Allegorical representations, mythical, historical and poetical figures and pastoral retreats, for example, not only reflect the harsh realities which sixteenth-century English society experienced, but also offer the possibility of escape to worlds o

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Kim, Hoyoung. "Edmund Spenser as Protestant Thinker and Poet : A Study of Protestantism and Culture in The Faerie Queene." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1993. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278683/.

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The study inquires into the dynamic relationship between Protestantism and culture in The Faerie Oueene. The American Protestant theologian Reinhold Niebuhr makes penetrating analyses of the relationship between man's cultural potentials and the insights of Protestant Christianity which greatly illuminate how Spenser searches for a comprehensive religious, ethical, political, and social vision for the Christian community of Protestant England. But Spenser maintains the tension between culture and Christianity to the end, refusing to offer a merely coherent system of principles based on the doc

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MCLEAN, GEORGE EDWARD. "SPENSER'S TERRITORIAL HISTORY: BOOK V OF THE "FAERIE QUEENE" AND "A VIEW OF THE PRESENT STATE OF IRELAND"." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/183825.

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History in Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene Book V and his View of the Present State of Ireland reflects the basic assumptions and characteristics of Elizabethan territorial history, a form observed in the geographic basis of chorography, in the metaphoric expression of the British past, and in the contemporary English enthusiasm for state, county, and city histories. William Lambarde's A Perambulation of Kent, the earliest English model for Spenser's territorial history, employs the antiquary's tentative empirical methodology in a study of sources newly freed of myth, legend, and unreliable ant

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Upham, Arthur G. "Chastity, the Reformation context, and Spenser's Faerie Queene, book 3." Thesis, McGill University, 1995. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=40457.

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This study examines the sixteenth-century English Reformation background of Spenser's Faerie Queene, Book 3. Recovering this material is not simply a matter of opening a Bible, for various groups in the period, both Catholic and Reformer, interpreted its passages differently. The Book's four primary female characters, Belphoebe, Florimell, Britomart and Amoret, embody different aspects of the virtue, and these come into sharper focus in the light of this background. After a general survey of previous discussions of this topic, Chapter 1 examines the virgin Belphoebe and attitudes about celibac

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Fauré, Nathalie. "La représentation chez Spenser : le motif de l'arbre dans le livre III de The faerie Queene." Toulouse 2, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001TOU20024.

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Le livre III de The Faerie Queene, d'Edmund Spenser (1552-1598) est un livre charnière chez cet auteur qualifié de médiéviste par ses contemporains. Décrit et exposé aux strophes 22 et 23 du chant 3, il représente, dans l'iconographie élisabétaine, l'arbre généalogique, à la fois arbre dynastique et arbre christique. Il est cependant intéressant d'observer ses ramifications poétiques, véhiculant des concepts comme celui de l'enfantement perçu à travers le topos allégorique de l'arbre de vie et de mort, lui-même porteur d'autres allégories et mythes, en particulier ceux traitant des métamorphos

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Golden, Michelle. "The "roote of ciuil conuersation" redefining courtesy in book vi of The faerie queen /." unrestricted, 2006. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-02072007-111115/.

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Thesis (B.A. honors)--Georgia State University, 2006.<br>Dr. Robert Sattelmeyer, committee chair; Wayne Erickson, committee member. Electronic text (40 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed May 7, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 39-40).

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Golden, Michelle. "The "Root of Civil Conversion": Redefining Courtesy in Book VI of the Faerie Queene." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2007. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_hontheses/4.

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Book Six of The Faerie Queene deals with the complexities of courtesy in a socially changing world. Calidore, the protagonist of Book Six, sets out to defeat the Blatant Beast, the chief enemy of courtesy, but abandons his quest midway through the book in order to live the shepherds’ life. Despite the ethical ambiguity associated with Calidore’s abandoning his quest, this pastoral setting should enable him to deepen his understanding of the nature and practice of courtesy. However, Calidore is unable to grow, and the poet essentially gives up on his own poetic quest.

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Newall, LeVasseur Alison 1959. "René Girard's theory of mimetic desire and Books III and IV of The Faerie Queene." Thesis, McGill University, 1987. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=66259.

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Ackerman, Heather. "Where babies come from in Spenser's Faerie Queene and Shakespeare's Measure for measure." Laramie, Wyo. : University of Wyoming, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1417810021&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=18949&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Stanfill, Emily Marie. "Erring Knights of Desire: The Romance in Santa Teresa's Libro de la vida and Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2007. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd2091.pdf.

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Frey, Christopher Lorne. "Body marks in early modern English epic : Spenser's Faerie Queene and Milton's Paradise Lost." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=97835.

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As epic was considered a culturally comprehensive genre, so Spenser's Faerie Queene and Milton's Paradise Lost provide an effective locus for inquiry into literary representations of body marks in the Renaissance, and hence of the body itself. While grounded on central principles of Renaissance poetics such as delightful teaching, utpictura poesis, and catharsis, Spenser's and Milton's graphic accounts of wounds and diverse other types of body marks show corporeality can have positive import for the soul and heroic identity, just as they are shaped in part by bodily experienees. This dissertat

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Sansonetti, Laetitia. "Représentations du désir dans la poésie narrative élisabéthaine [Venus and Adonis, Hero and Leander, The Faerie Queene II et III] : de la figure à la fiction." Thesis, Paris 3, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA030116.

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À partir de définitions empruntées à la philosophie antique (Platon, Aristote), à la littérature païenne (Ovide), à la théologie chrétienne (Augustin, Thomas d’Aquin), ou encore à la médecine (de Galien à Robert Burton), cette thèse étudie les représentations du désir dans la poésie narrative élisabéthaine des années 1590, en particulier chez Shakespeare (Venus and Adonis), Marlowe et Chapman (Hero and Leander) et Spenser (The Faerie Queene, II et III). Le postulat de départ est que le désir détermine les conditions de sa représentation : il est ainsi à la fois objet poétique et principe de cr

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Brown, Molly Anne. "Spenser's Colin Clout : an introductory study." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001831.

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From introduction: In the sixth book of The Faerie Qveene, the reader is presented with a vision of the Graces and their attendants dancing on Mount Acidale to the piping of a simple shepherd. Spenser identifies this favoured musician as Colin Clout and then goes on to pose a seemingly inconsequential rhetorical question. "Who knowes not Colin Cloute?” he asks. The note of confident pride which can be discerned in the query clearly reveals Spenser's peculiar interest in one of his most intriguing creations. It is almost impossible to read a representative selection of Spenser's poetical works

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Palacios, Alexandra Sofia. "A Common Man Trapped inside the Queen’s Body." FIU Digital Commons, 2013. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1018.

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My thesis proposes a feminist-queer reading of Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene in response to Julian Wolfreys’ “The ‘Endlesse Worke’ of Transgression”. I examine the challenges to male authority that the low-born poet, Spenser, faced when he presented his manual for the formation of new English subjects to his sovereign queen, Elizabeth I. The Prefatory Letter to Raleigh and passages from the 1590 version of the epic provide evidence to support the view that traditional hierarchical male/female binaries may have been destabilized by the presence of an unmarried queen. My thesis also supplem

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Hubbard, Gillian Chell. ""Acquire and beget a temperance" : the virtue of temperance in The faerie queene book II and Hamlet : a thesis submitted to the Victoria University of Wellington in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in English Literature /." ResearchArchive@Victoria e-thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/1261.

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Brooks, Scott A. "To move, to please, and to teach : the new poetry and the new music, and the works of Edmund Spenser and John Milton, 1579-1674." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/5034.

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By examining Renaissance criticism both literary and musical, framed in the context of the contemporaneous obsession with the works of Plato, Aristotle, and Horace, among others, this thesis identifies the parallels in poetic and musical practices of the time that coalesce to form a unified idea about the poet-as-singer, and his role in society. Edmund Spenser and John Milton, who both, in various ways, lived in periods of upheaval, identified themselves as the poet-singer, and comprehending their poetry in the context of this idea is essential to a fuller appreciation thereof. The first chapt

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Hart, Stuart Anthony. "Soteriology in Edmund Spenser's 'The Faerie Queene'." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2018. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/8138/.

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The thesis demonstrates the extent to which the sixteenth-century allegorical epic poem, The Faerie Queene, engages with early modern theories of salvation. Much has been written about Spenser’s consideration of theological ideas in Book I and this has prompted scholars to speculate about the poet’s own doctrinal inclinations. However, little has been written about the ways in which the remaining books in the poem also explore Christian ideas of atonement, grace and damnation. This study advances Spenserian scholarship by stressing the soteriological dimension of books II, III, IV and VI. It c

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Woolway, Joanne. "Spenser and the culture of place." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.271061.

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Mistovich, Joy Lynne. "An In-Depth Exploration of The Faerie Queene: Book 1." Youngstown State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1403194557.

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Majeske, Andrew J. "Equity in English Renaissance literature : Thomas More [sic] Utopia and Edmund Spenser's The faerie queene /." For electronic version search Digital dissertations database. Restricted to UC campuses. Access is free to UC campus dissertations, 2003. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.

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Randell, Nicholas. "The Function of Forest in The Faerie Queene: Seeing the Woods for the Trees." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 1987. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1396871057.

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Ponce, Timothy Matthew. "The Hybrid Hero in Early Modern English Literature: A Synthesis of Classical and Contemplative Heroism." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2017. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1062882/.

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In his Book of the Courtier, Castiglione appeals to the Renaissance notion of self-fashioning, the idea that individuals could shape their identity rather than relying solely on the influence of external factors such as birth, social class, or fate. While other early modern authors explore the practice of self-fashioning—Niccolò Machiavelli, for example, surveys numerous princes identifying ways they have molded themselves—Castiglione emphasizes the necessity of modeling one's-self after a variety of sources, "[taking] various qualities now from one man and now from another." In this way, Cas

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Wiggins, Linda. "Braue atchieuements : an analysis of the female principle in books III and IV of Edmund Spenser's The faerie queene /." The Ohio State University, 1990. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487683756125265.

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Davis, Matthew J. "Guyon's Sensitive Appetite." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2010. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_theses/88.

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This Master’s Thesis seeks to explain the internal conflicts faced by Guyon, the titular hero of Book II of Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene. Starting with Thomas Aquinas’ designations of the sensitive versus the intellectual appetite, I show that Guyon struggles to maintain the dominance of his intellectual appetite as he puts his vaunted temperance to a series of tests. The hero manages to appease his sensitive appetite through the vice of curiositas, yet the power of his sensitive appetite demands dramatic and violent acts of repression to quash it in Mammon’s Cave and in the Bower of Bliss

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"The Gyant's Giant Meaning: An Application of Monster Theory to Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene." Master's thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.24991.

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abstract: This paper utilizes insights from emerging monster theory, particularly the idea that monsters are cultural representations, to examine the representation of the Gyant and the figure Talus in Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene. The thesis posits that contrary to most critical readings, the episode concerning the Gyant focuses on a portion of the 16th century English Cultural Body-the peasants, rather than the Irish or another cultural subgroup. The thesis also argues that through the application of monster theory, the complicated political sympathies of the author towards the English low

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Pajak, Zachary E. "Picture this, imagine that : the literary and pedagogic force of ekphrastic principles." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1957/34331.

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My thesis is comprised of two articles, titled "Interpreting Britomart's Encounters with Art: The Cyclic Nature of Ekphrasis in Spenser's Faerie Queene III," and "Picture This, Imagine That: Teaching Visual Literacy in the Disciplines." The purpose of my first article is to argue that Edmund Spenser uses ekphrasis in his epic poem The Faerie Queene to draw comparisons between the regenerative natures of both art and life. I support my argument by examining three ekphrastic instances experienced by Britomart, the central knight figure of Book III of the poem: a magic mirror forged by Merlin, a

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Lachapelle, Elysa. "L'invention dans les oeuvres de Johann Heinrich Füssli sur le thème du poème The faerie queene d'Edmund Spenser." Mémoire, 2012. http://www.archipel.uqam.ca/5143/1/M12617.pdf.

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Ce mémoire a pour sujet les œuvres réalisées à la fin du XVIIIe et au début du XIXe siècle par Johann Heinrich Füssli, inspirées de l'œuvre littéraire The Faerie Queene (1590-1596), du poète anglais Edmund Spenser. Au nombre de quinze, ces œuvres sont abordées en tant que corpus au sein de l'œuvre de Füssli. L'objectif du mémoire est d'étudier et de documenter, au moyen d'un catalogue raisonné, ces œuvres à sujets spensérien. Une étude stylistique et iconographique qui tient compte des stratégies formelles utilisées pour réaliser ces œuvres, mise en lien avec le contexte culturel, permet de le

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Harrington, Erin R. "Intersections of new historicism and contemporary theory in renaissance literature." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1957/35246.

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��In this thesis, I use modern concepts of feminism, gender performativity, and psychoanalysis as a means to understand female characters and authors of Renaissance England in a new way. In my first article, I analyze various texts and performances of Queen Elizabeth I, as well as texts of Renaissance female authors who are now slowly entering our modern canon �� notably, Aemilia Lanyer. The second article is a feminist investigation of Britomart from Spenser's The Faerie Queene. In both pieces, I argue that these women (historical and fictional) broaden the definition of queer, and ultimate

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Tsai, Pei-chi, and 蔡珮琪. "Allegory, Ethics, and Subjectivity: A Lacanian Rereading of Book II of Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/87592377234356863570.

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博士<br>國立臺灣大學<br>外國語文學研究所<br>99<br>In this dissertation, I endeavor to reread and reevaluate The Legend of Temperance in Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, bringing to bear Lacan’s theories of the topological structure, the ethics of desire, and the subject of the unconscious to examine three related topics—allegory, ethics and subjectivity. In the second chapter, I combine Jon Whitman’s observations on the traditions of allegory comprising the compositional and the critical and interpretational, Walter Benjamin’s idea of the dialectical potential of allegory and Gordon Teskey’s further elaborat

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"Lacan's mirror and beyond: Dante, Spenser, and Milton ("La Divina commedia," "The Faerie Queene," "Paradise Lost," psychoanalysis)." Tulane University, 1987.

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The theories of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan concerning human psychic development provide a significant metastructure for interpreting the motivation of five major epic figures: Dante the pilgrim in La Divina Commedia, Britomart in Spenser's The Faerie Queene, and Satan, Eve, and Adam in Milton's Paradise Lost. Each of these psychodramas begins at the point Lacan has posited as the primal phase of all human psychic experience, which he has called the 'mirror stage,' located within the pre-verbal realm of the Imaginary. My reading of each poem begins with each poet's focus upon a mirror,

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Lin, Chih-hsin, and 林質心. ""Breaking down the Middle Wall of Partition": Edmund Spenser's Circular Argument in "The Legend of Chasitity" of The Faerie Queene." Thesis, 1996. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/48237571015708597865.

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碩士<br>國立政治大學<br>英國語文學系<br>84<br>This thesis aims at explaining how Spenser builds his love story of Artegall and Britomart as a perfect love model for all his readers in the real world to follow. The thesis first introduces how the Christian theory of love is modeled on the perfect love relation between God and human beings and how Spenser emulates that divine model and creates a pair of perfect human lovers. By his emulation of the divine model, he not only breaks down the middle wall be

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Rack, Melissa Joy. "Abject horror and the renaissance imagination plotting the intersection of human and monster in Book I of Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene /." 2008. http://etd.utk.edu/August2008MastersTheses/RackMelissaJoy.pdf.

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"Freud and Spenser: a dream poetic: an isomorphic comparison of Freud's "The Interpretation of Dreams" and Spenser's "The Faerie Queene" emphasizing books ii and vi (psychoanalysis, hermeneutics, aesthetics)." Tulane University, 1985.

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The Faerie Queene is not a dream-poem (Introduction, Section 1). Yet dream-theory (oneirocriticism) can be applied to all texts (oneiropoetic), provided that the subordination of literature to psychology (or vice-versa) is avoided (Section 2). The purpose of this essay (Section 3) is to correlate Freudian dream-structures with literary structures, exemplify the correlations with Spenserian passages, and to build a total model for the interpretation of rhetoric in terms of dream-theory. The result, christened 'oneiropoetic,' employs classical rhetoric and poetics, as known in the Renaissance an

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Lodhia, SHEETAL. "Material Self-Fashioning and the Renaissance Culture of Improvement." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1974/1513.

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This dissertation argues that in Renaissance discourses of the body the body is progressively evacuated of the spirit, as we move from texts of the late Medieval period to texts of the Jacobean period. Where New Historicists have suggested that the practice of “self-fashioning,” which dictates behaviour, speech and dress, takes place in the Renaissance, I argue that there was a material self-fashioning of the body occurring simultaneously. Such corporeal fashioning, motivated by desire for physical improvement, frustrates the extent to which the soul shapes the body. My Introduction lays th

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