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The Faerie Queene: Book I

Autor Edmund Spenser Editat de Lilian Winstanley
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 dec 2013

Observăm că aplicabilitatea practică a acestei ediții Oxford University Press rezidă în capacitatea sa de a face accesibil un text fundamental al Renașterii engleze pentru publicul contemporan. Prin structurarea riguroasă a primei cărți din The Faerie Queene, editorul P.C. Bayley oferă instrumentele necesare pentru descifrarea alegoriei complexe a „Cavalerului Crucii Roșii” și a virtuții Sfințeniei. Credem că această ediție este esențială pentru studiul literaturii elisabetane, deoarece păstrează ortografia și ritmul operei originale, dar le completează cu note care explică simbolismul creștin și cel politic de la curtea reginei Elisabeta I. Această lucrare completează perspectiva oferită de On the Poetry of Spenser and the Form of Romances de John Arthos, adăugând analiza detaliată a textului propriu-zis acolo unde Arthos se concentrează pe evoluția formei de romance și a viziunilor pastorale. În contextul operei sale, The Faerie Queene. Book 1 reprezintă punctul de plecare pentru marele proiect epic al lui Edmund Spenser, fiind mai concentrată pe simbolismul religios decât volumele ulterioare, precum The Faerie Queene, Books Three and Four, unde accentul se mută pe dinamica dorinței și politica națională. Recomandăm acest volum pentru rigoarea filologică și claritatea cu care este prezentat conflictul dintre virtute și viciu.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781107696754
ISBN-10: 1107696755
Pagini: 374
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:New York, United States

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această ediție oricărui student sau pasionat de literatură clasică care dorește să exploreze bazele epopeii engleze. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere profundă a modului în care Edmund Spenser a împletit mitul arthurian cu morala creștină. Este un instrument de studiu excelent datorită glosarului și notelor care clarifică limbajul arhaic intenționat al autorului, facilitând lectura fără a sacrifica profunzimea academică.


Despre autor

Edmund Spenser (c. 1552–1599) a fost unul dintre cei mai importanți poeți ai erei elisabetane, cunoscut pentru inovațiile sale metrice și pentru utilizarea unui limbaj arhaic, menit să onoreze tradiția lui Chaucer. Opera sa monumentală, The Faerie Queene, a fost concepută ca o alegorie morală vastă, menită să ilustreze virtuțile cavalerismului creștin. Admirator al mitologiei arthuriene și al valorilor umaniste, Spenser a creat „strofa spenseriană”, o structură poetică complexă care a influențat generații de scriitori, de la poeții romantici până la moderniști.


Descriere scurtă

Originally published in 1915 as part of the Pitt Press Series, and reprinted many times thereafter, this book contains the text of the first book of Spenser's Faerie Queene. Winstanley prefaces the text with an introduction on the medieval, classical and renaissance sources for the poem, as well as the book's historical allegory. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in this important English poem.

Cuprins

Introduction: 1. Table of dates; 2. Historical allegory of book I; 3. Sources of book I; The Faerie Queene. Book I; Notes.

Recenzii

Two editions of Spenser are both from the same series, published by Hackett Publishing Company, which is providing inexpensive paperback volumes of The Faerie Queene, under the general editorship of Abraham Stoll. The volumes printed this year, books 1 and 5, are edited, respectively, by Carol V. Kaske and Stoll himself. A single volume combining books 3 and 4, edited by Dorothy Stephens, is forthcoming, as is book 6, edited by Andrew Hadfield. The volumes are attractively printed, with notes at the bottom of the page. Each volume includes an introduction, the Letter to Raleigh, a brief 'Life of Edmund Spenser,' textual notes, a glossary, an 'Index of Characters,' and a bibliography. Kaske's introduction to book 1 forms an accessible student guide, touching on a wide range of topics, from versification, genre, and allegory, to 'Spenser's Religious Milieu.' At the same time, there are fresh flashes of insight, no doubt derived from Kaske's long experience of teaching a complex poem. . . . Eschewing 'political and biographical allegory (p. xvi), the notes offer plenty of help to the student seeking to get behind the veil of Spenser's dark conceit, for they emphasize symbolism and historical context, especially literary context or 'sources.' Stoll's edition of book 5 of the Faerie Queene includes a judicious introduction of considerable merit. Not simply well written and learned, it partitions the information in an accessible and interesting way. Stoll is fully attuned to the recent controversies surrounding the Legend of Justice, but he does more than record them for the student reader; he manages to express sympathy for both poet and poem. Students need to hear the historical nature of Spenser's achievement for English literature, and Stoll leads nicely with this topic: book 5 is 'one of the most challenging meditations on justice in English literature' (p. ix). Stoll is as sensitive to the violence of book 5 as he is to its strangeness and beauty. Students will appreciate the short inventory of important works of criticism at the end of each section. The notes are not as full as Kaske's, but perhaps appropriately so. . . . I look forward to having access to the remaining volumes in this series. --Patrick Cheney, Studies in English Literature 1500-1900

Teachers of Spenser will also welcome two more installments of the Hackett editions of separate books of The Faerie Queene under the general editorship of Abraham Stoll, this time on books 2 and on books 3 and 4. In my view, these are the most attractive, inexpensive, but also comprehensive editions to date, with far better (and easy to read) notes on mythology and name symbolism (matters increasingly foreign to our undergraduates) than almost all previous versions. --Catherine Gimelli Martin, Studies in English Literature 1500-1900

The multivolume format provides varied introductions and annotations--a benefit to any student--and facilitates the general reading experience through smaller bindings. The prefatory material of individual volumes focuses on history, subjects, and ideologies pertinent to specific books. The edition is thus ideal for classroom use, especially in survey courses or for those who prefer to read several individual books rather than study the poem in its entirety. The format and language of the editorial input lend themselves to undergraduate study. These editions offer a solid analytical grounding for readers at various levels, and together compile a sound and substantial set of editorial perspectives on Spenser's most famous work. --Rachel E. Frier, Sixteenth Century Journal

Notă biografică

Edmund Spenser (1552 - 1599) was an English poet considered to be one of the greatest poets in the English language. While Spenser would published more than a dozen works in his lifetime he is best known for his epic poem, The Faerie Queene. Dedicated to Queen Elizabeth I, the book is both one of the longest poems and most influential in the English language.