"A balanced, coherent reading that is both enlightening and full of delight." ―Choice "My hope has been to provide students (and teachers) of Spenser's epic with ways of approaching the poem. The first part of the book is concerned with contexts―the life of Spenser, some forms the epic took before (and after) his own, the pervasiveness of certain literary figures (like Chaucer) and figures from literature (like Arthur) during his time. In discussing these topics, I have also tried to place Spenser's text itself. The chapter on overall structure, where others have preceded me, is intended to fasten on the whole poem. The next, on Pageantry, is my own foray into the subject and strategems of Allegory, though I have chosen to speak of Allegory in terms the poem (and not simply the Letter to Raleigh) constantly employs. This chapter and the last three then focus on the 'play of double senses' (a text derived from Book III, canto iv, stanza 28) as I see it working in specific ways in the epic, thus suggesting how Spenser participates in the epic tradition that I sketched in Chapter II." ―from the Preface

Play of Double Senses: Spenser's Fairie Queene (Landmarks in Literature)

A. Bartlett Giamatti

Literature & Fiction

PRENTICE/HALL

"A balanced, coherent reading that is both enlightening and full of delight." â€”Choice"My hope has been to provide students (and teachers) of Spenser's epic with ways of approaching the poem. The first part of the book is concerned with contextsâ€”the life of Spenser, some forms the epic took before (and after) his own, the pervasiveness of certain literary figures (like Chaucer) and figures from literature (like Arthur) during his time. In discussing these topics, I have also tried to place Spenser's text itself. The chapter on overall structure, where others have preceded me, is intended to fasten on the whole poem. The next, on Pageantry, is my own foray into the subject and strategems of Allegory, though I have chosen to speak of Allegory in terms the poem (and not simply the Letter to Raleigh) constantly employs. This chapter and the last three then focus on the 'play of double senses' (a text derived from Book III, canto iv, stanza 28) as I see it working in specific ways in the epic, thus suggesting how Spenser participates in the epic tradition that I sketched in Chapter II." â€”from the Preface

Play of double senses: Spenser's Faerie queene (Landmarks in literature)

The Latin and Greek Poems; The Italian Poems (A Variorum Commentary on the Poems of John Milton, Volume 1)

Douglas, Bush

J. E. Shaw

History & Criticism

Columbia University Press

Free and Ordered Space: The Real World of the University Signed and Numbered

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

W.W.Norton&Company

In October 1974, the Council of the Dante Society of America voted to sponsor, as a Bicentennial offering, an anthology of significant essays on Dante written by Americans or by other nationals in an American context. The volume, tentatively entitled, 'Dante and American Intellectual Life,' was intended to demonstrate the impact Dante has had on American letters and thought, broadly conceived, an was not meant to confine itself solely to literary criticism. The Council wanted representative essays form people either born in America, or born abroad but educated here, from as early as possible in America's history to the present, and from a variety of perspectives.

Dante in America: The First Two Centuries (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies)

Dante Society of America

Poetry

Center for Medieval & Early Renaissance Studies

A philosophical musing on sports and play, this wholly inspiring and utterly charming reissue of Bart Giamatti's long-out-of-print final book, Take Time for Paradise, puts baseball in the context of American life and leisure. Giamatti begins with the conviction that our use of free time tells us something about who we are. He explores the concepts of leisure, American-style. And in baseball, the quintessential American game, he finds its ultimate expression. "Sports and leisure are our reiteration of the hunger for paradise- for freedom untrammeled." Filled with pithy truths about such resonant subjects as ritual, self-betterment, faith, home, and community, Take Time for Paradise gives us much more than just baseball. These final, eloquent thoughts of "the philosopher king of baseball" (Seattle Weekly) are a joyful, reverent celebration of the sport Giamatti loved and the country that created it.

Take Time for Paradise: Americans and Their Games

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Bloomsbury USA

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