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