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Transforming Desire: Erotic Knowledge in Books III and IV of the Faerie Queene (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520301719)
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xThe Faerie Queene anticipates postmodernist concerns with destabilizing language, and Lauren Silberman's stimulating study of Books III and IV of the poem proceeds from the assumption that Spenser has something important to say to us in the late twentieth century. In these books, Spenser exposes fictions of total control for what they are--fictions. The text affirms the value of risk and improvisation over the temptation to seek guarantees. The books examine the role of desire in moving us to function in an uncertain world and tempting us to foreclose that uncertainty by strategies that seek to frame knowledge through total mastery of it.
Author: Lauren Silberman
ISBN-10: 0520301714
ISBN-13: 9780520301719
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 04/20/2018
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.46d
Author: Lauren Silberman
ISBN-10: 0520301714
ISBN-13: 9780520301719
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 04/20/2018
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.46d
By Lauren Silberman
xLauren Silberman is a Professor of English at Baruch College and teaches courses in Medieval and Renaissance English, early women writers, classical literature and satire from Aesop through South Park. Her publications include Transforming Desire: Erotic Knowledge in Books III and IV of The Faerie Queene, Worldmaking Spenser: Explorations in the Early Modern Age (co-edited with Patrick Cheney) and articles on Edmund Spenser, Ben Jonson and L. Frank Baum
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