Spenser's ruins and the art of recollection /
Beginning with the origins of mnemonic strategies in epic tales, Helfer examines how the art of memory speaks to debates about poetry and its place in culture from Plato to Spenser's present day.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Toronto ; Buffalo :
University of Toronto Press,
©2012.
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| ISBN: | 9781442660571 1442660570 |
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Table of Contents:
- Spenser's complaints : the fall of Troy, the ruin of Rome, and the art of recollection
- The death of the "new poete" : ruin and recollection in The Shepeardes calender
- The Ruines of time and the art of recollection
- "The methode of a poet historical [and] ... an historiographer" : recollecting the past in the 1590 Faerie queene
- Golden age recollections : prehistory as present in Spenser's later work
- Conclusion : misprision and freedom : ruining and recollecting the bower of bliss.