{"product_id":"resisting-allegory-interpretive-delirium-in-spensers-faerie-queene-hardcover","title":"Resisting Allegory: Interpretive Delirium in Spenser's Faerie Queene - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHarry Berger\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDavid Lee Miller\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSpenser is a delirious poet. He can't plough straight. What he builds is shiftier, twistier\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ethan anything dreamed up or put down by M. \u003c\/i\u003eC. \u003ci\u003eEscher. \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSo begins \u003ci\u003eResisting Allegory\u003c\/i\u003e, in which the leading Spenser critic of our time sums up a lifelong commitment to the theory and practice of textual interpretation. Spenser's great poem provides the occasion for a searching and comprehensive interdisciplinary exploration of reading practices3\/4those the author advocates as well as those he adapts or criticizes in entertaining a wide range of critical arguments with his celebrated combination of intellectual generosity and rigorous questioning. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBerger is interested in how details of the poem's language--phrases, images, figures on which we haven't put enough interpretive pressure--disconcert traditional interpretations and big discourses that the poem has often been thought to serve. Central to this volume is an attention to the deployment of gender in conjunction with the Berger's notion of narrative complicity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eResisting Allegory\u003c\/i\u003e offers a model of theoretically sophisticated criticism that never wavers in its close attention to the text. Berger offers a sustained and brilliantly articulated resistance not only to allegory, as the title indicates, but also to prevalent modes of cultural and historical criticism. As in all of Berger's books, a lucid reflection on questions of method--based on a profound and richly theoretically informed understanding of the workings of language and of the historical situations of the people involved in it--are interwoven with an interpretive practice that serves as an exemplary pedagogical model. Berger attends to historical and political context while deeply respecting the ways in which text can never be reduced to context. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis distinctive and original book makes clear the scope and coherence of the critical vision elaborated Berger has elaborated in a lifetime of seminal and still-challenging critical arguments.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSpenser is a delirious poet. He can't plough straight. What he builds is shiftier, twistier\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ethan anything dreamed up or put down by M. \u003c\/i\u003eC. \u003ci\u003eEscher. \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003eSo begins \u003ci\u003eResisting Allegory\u003c\/i\u003e, in which the leading Spenser critic of our time sums up a lifelong commitment to the theory and practice of textual interpretation. Spenser's great poem provides the occasion for a searching and comprehensive interdisciplinary exploration of reading practices3\/4those the author advocates as well as those he adapts or criticizes in entertaining a wide range of critical arguments with his celebrated combination of intellectual generosity and rigorous questioning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBerger is interested in how details of the poem's language--phrases, images, figures on which we haven't put enough interpretive pressure--disconcert traditional interpretations and big discourses that the poem has often been thought to serve. Central to this volume is an attention to the deployment of gender in conjunction with the Berger's notion of narrative complicity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eResisting Allegory\u003c\/i\u003e offers a model of theoretically sophisticated criticism that never wavers in its close attention to the text. Berger offers a sustained and brilliantly articulated resistance not only to allegory, as the title indicates, but also to prevalent modes of cultural and historical criticism. As in all of Berger's books, a lucid reflection on questions of method--based on a profound and richly theoretically informed understanding of the workings of language and of the historical situations of the people involved in it--are interwoven with an interpretive practice that serves as an exemplary pedagogical model. Berger attends to historical and political context while deeply respecting the ways in which text can never be reduced to context. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis distinctive and original book makes clear the scope and coherence of the critical vision elaborated Berger has elaborated in a lifetime of seminal and still-challenging critical arguments.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHarry Berger, Jr.\u003c\/b\u003e, is Professor Emeritus of Literature and Art History and a Fellow of Cowell College at the University of California, Santa Barbara. A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is the author of fourteen books, most recently \u003ci\u003eHarrying: Skills of Offense in Shakespeare's Henriad\u003c\/i\u003e (Fordham, 2016).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Lee Miller\u003c\/b\u003e is Carolina Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eDreams of the Burning Child: Sacrifiial Sons and the Father's Witness\u003c\/i\u003e (Cornell, 2003) and \u003ci\u003eThe Poem's Two Bodies: The Poetics of the 1590 \u003c\/i\u003eFaerie Queene (Princeton, 1988).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e[[back cover]]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Berger's new volume on Spenser's narrative poem will be essential to all Renaissance scholars. Like Berger's earlier books, \u003ci\u003eResisting Allegory\u003c\/i\u003e develops and complicates our thinking on \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eFaerie Queene\u003c\/i\u003e along a number of fronts. Berger's notion of narrative complicity, familiar now through his famous readings of Shakespeare, is richer and more complex for its encounter with Spenser and with gender analysis.\"--Theresa Krier, Macalester College\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Since his first book in 1957, Harry Berger has remained a model for each successive generation of Spenser scholars--to many of us, the leading figure of our lifetimes. \u003ci\u003eResisting Allegory\u003c\/i\u003e, a beguiling exercise in his late style, continues the lifelong work of engaging the allegorical project of \u003ci\u003eThe Faerie Queene\u003c\/i\u003e in intellectually expansive ways. Every reader and scholar of Spenser will want this book.\"--Roland Greene, Stanford University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHarry Berger (Author) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Harry Berger, Jr., is Professor Emeritus of Literature and Art History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His most recent books include \u003ci\u003eFigures of a Changing World: Metaphor and the Emergence of Modern Culture\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e A Fury in the Words: Love and Embarrassment in Shakespeare's Venice\u003c\/i\u003e (both Fordham). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eHarry Berger, Jr.\u003c\/b\u003e, is Professor Emeritus of Literature and Art History and a Fellow of Cowell College at the University of California, Santa Barbara. A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is the author of fourteen books, most recently \u003ci\u003eHarrying: Skills of Offense in Shakespeare's Henriad\u003c\/i\u003e (Fordham, 2016). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Lee Miller (Edited By) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eDavid Lee Miller\u003c\/b\u003e is Carolina Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eDreams of the Burning Child: Sacrifiial Sons and the Father's Witness\u003c\/i\u003e (Cornell, 2003) and \u003ci\u003eThe Poem's Two Bodies: The Poetics of the 1590 \u003c\/i\u003eFaerie Queene (Princeton, 1988). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.81 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 07, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52695120347443,"sku":"9780823285631","price":162.61,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/YVB5VUs0bkNUNklYamEwcmZIbHdsZz09.webp?v=1763081866","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/resisting-allegory-interpretive-delirium-in-spensers-faerie-queene-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}