Enabling Engagements: Edmund Spenser and the Poetics of PatronageMcGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 4 квіт. 2002 р. - 192 стор. Enabling Engagements contributes to current critical debates regarding early modern subjectivity and early modern cultural capital. In stressing the boldness of Edmund Spenser's poetics of patronage, Judith Owens shows that Elizabethans could and did exercise agency within a wide range of institutions. By consistently challenging assumptions of courtly hegemony in early modern society, Owens suggests a new appraisal of the processes of cultural commodification. Enabling Engagements challenges conventional assessments of Spenser as court-centred and of patronal relations in the early modern period as asymmetrical and prescriptive. Owens demonstrates that Spenser exercised a vigorous sense of agency within the close quarters of patronage and courtly culture, fashioning his laureate's role and envisioning nationhood in resistance to the centre. She shows that his independence from court-centred values and tropes informed his poetics from the start of his publishing career, not just as a result of increasing disillusionment with the court. Owens develops detailed readings of Spenser's poetry and his paratextual material in The Shepheardes Calender, the 1590 Faerie Queene, and Complaints, providing contexts that are both broader and more varied than those usually accorded Spenser's poetry. She extends the horizons of The Faerie Queene in particular to include not only court and sovereign but also London, the material conditions of early modern publishing, and Ireland. Bringing together concerns usually approached individually, she shows us a Spenser who is neither the careerist of much recent criticism nor the Elizabethan propagandist of long-standing custom. |
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... say that Spenser's poetics is highly attuned to socio-political currents. I focus closely on effects of language and line, image and analogy, voice and theme, in order to provide a scale sufficiently precise to gauge immediately felt ...
... say that Spenser's poetics is highly attuned to socio-political currents. I focus closely on effects of language and line, image and analogy, voice and theme, in order to provide a scale sufficiently precise to gauge immediately felt ...
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... reveal Elizabeth to Pan will make him “surcease [his] suit ... and honour virginity” (134). Pan is, of course, duly reformed. ”Give me leave to die with wondering,” he says, and the ubiquitous pun on die as orgasm 8 Enabling Engagements.
... reveal Elizabeth to Pan will make him “surcease [his] suit ... and honour virginity” (134). Pan is, of course, duly reformed. ”Give me leave to die with wondering,” he says, and the ubiquitous pun on die as orgasm 8 Enabling Engagements.
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Edmund Spenser and the Poetics of Patronage Judith Owens. he says, and the ubiquitous pun on die as orgasm indicates just how thoroughly his libidinous energies have been chastened into obeisance (135). While it is the presence of ...
Edmund Spenser and the Poetics of Patronage Judith Owens. he says, and the ubiquitous pun on die as orgasm indicates just how thoroughly his libidinous energies have been chastened into obeisance (135). While it is the presence of ...
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... say, must follow still to wonder” (169). Ambiguous syntax permits our understanding stillness of the tongue as the very precondition for wonder. Far from a sign of presumption, therefore, silence is an emptying out of the subject, who ...
... say, must follow still to wonder” (169). Ambiguous syntax permits our understanding stillness of the tongue as the very precondition for wonder. Far from a sign of presumption, therefore, silence is an emptying out of the subject, who ...
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... say, that my life is my dueties bondman; dutie my faiths soveraigne” (169). Built into this apology for the lacqué's silence is the distinct threat of insubordination. It may be wonder that stops the messenger's tongue; it may also be ...
... say, that my life is my dueties bondman; dutie my faiths soveraigne” (169). Built into this apology for the lacqué's silence is the distinct threat of insubordination. It may be wonder that stops the messenger's tongue; it may also be ...
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The Shepheardes Calender | 40 |
Commendatory Verses | 69 |
The Dedicatory Sonnets | 88 |
Ralegh in The Faerie Queene iii | 111 |
Conclusion | 133 |
Notes | 143 |
Works Cited | 163 |
Index | 177 |
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