'Another Game in Vew': The Representation of the Poet in the Faerie Queene

Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, Vol. 2, pp. 65-81, 1989

17 Pages Posted: 1 May 2010

Date Written: 1988

Abstract

Many 20th-century critics of THE FAERIE QUEENE have established an artificial distinction between the narrator of THE FAERIE QUEENE and Spenser, one which posits an Olympian detachment of the author from the work, and of both from the historical circumstances in which the work was written. An analysis of the poem reveals the limited sense in which a distinction between the narrator and the implied author may be drawn, and shows how the incompleteness of the work and some of its structural and thematic tensions are due to its changing significance as a political project undertaken by Spenser.

Keywords: Poetry, Epic, Renaissance, Edmund Spenser, Narrator, Speaker, Ideology

Suggested Citation

Garcia Landa, Jose Angel, 'Another Game in Vew': The Representation of the Poet in the Faerie Queene (1988). Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, Vol. 2, pp. 65-81, 1989, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1597086

Jose Angel Garcia Landa (Contact Author)

Universidad de Zaragoza ( email )

Gran Via 2
Zaragoza, 50005
Spain

HOME PAGE: http://www.garcialanda.net

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