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Spenser's Ruins and the Art of Recollection.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (406 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442660571
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Spenser's Ruins and the Art of RecollectionDDC classification:
  • 791.43/6352624
LOC classification:
  • PN56.M44 H454 2012
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface: Preamble to Ruin -- 1 Spenser's Complaints: The Fall of Troy, the Ruin of Rome, and the Art of Recollection -- 2 The Death of the "New Poete": Ruin and Recollection in The Shepheardes Calender -- 3 The Ruines of Time and the Art of Recollection -- 4 "The Methode of a Poet Historical [and] . . . an Historiographer": Recollecting the Past in the 1590 Faerie Queene -- 5 Golden Age Recollections: Prehistory as Present in Spenser's Later Work -- Conclusion: Misprision and Freedom: Ruining and Recollecting the Bower of Bliss -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Summary: 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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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface: Preamble to Ruin -- 1 Spenser's Complaints: The Fall of Troy, the Ruin of Rome, and the Art of Recollection -- 2 The Death of the "New Poete": Ruin and Recollection in The Shepheardes Calender -- 3 The Ruines of Time and the Art of Recollection -- 4 "The Methode of a Poet Historical [and] . . . an Historiographer": Recollecting the Past in the 1590 Faerie Queene -- 5 Golden Age Recollections: Prehistory as Present in Spenser's Later Work -- Conclusion: Misprision and Freedom: Ruining and Recollecting the Bower of Bliss -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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