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Judith H. Anderson - Reading the Allegorical Intertext: Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton - 9780823228478 - V9780823228478
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Reading the Allegorical Intertext: Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton

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Description for Reading the Allegorical Intertext: Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton Hardback. Conceives the intertext as a relation between or among texts that encompasses both Kristevan intertextuality and traditional relationships of influence, imitation, allusion, and citation. This work focuses on relations between Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" and Spenser's "The Faerie Queene", including the role of the narrator. Num Pages: 452 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 167 x 34. Weight in Grams: 740.

Judith H. Anderson conceives the intertext as a relation between or among texts that encompasses both Kristevan intertextuality and traditional relationships of influence, imitation, allusion, and citation. Like the Internet, the intertext is a state, or place, of potential expressed in ways ranging from deliberate emulation to linguistic free play. Relatedly, the intertext is also a convenient fiction that enables examination of individual agency and sociocultural determinism. Anderson’s intertext is allegorical because Spenser’s Faerie Queene is pivotal to her study and because allegory, understood as continued or moving metaphor, encapsulates, even as it magnifies, the process of signification. Her title ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
452
Condition
New
Number of Pages
452
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823228478
SKU
V9780823228478
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About Judith H. Anderson
Judith H. Anderson is Chancellor’s Professor of English Emeritus at Indiana University. Her books include Words That Matter: Linguistic Perception in Renaissance English; Translating Investments: Metaphor and the Dynamic of Cultural Change in Tudor-Stuart England (Fordham); and Reading the Allegorical Intertext: Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton (Fordham).

Reviews for Reading the Allegorical Intertext: Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton
"A first-rate scholar-critic at the peak of her form."
-William J. Kennedy Cornell University "A collection of essays written over a distinguished critic's career..." -Studies in English Literature "Reading the Allegorical Intertext gives rich attention to its four authors-Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton-although Spenser, who plays a major part in seventeen of the nineteen chapters, remains at the heart ... Read more

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