Self-Interpretation in The Faerie Queene (Studies in Renaissance Literature)

CONTENTS......Page 6
PREFACE......Page 8
Part One: ‘Allegorical Devices’......Page 12
1. ‘To direct your understanding’: Allegory, or ‘Authoritative’ Commentary......Page 14
2. ‘This and That’: The Experience of Allegory......Page 26
3. Allegorical Characters......Page 50
Part Two: Self-Interpretation in The Legend of Holiness......Page 66
Introduction......Page 68
4. The Locus of Self-Interpretation......Page 72
5. Specious and Valid Paradigms of Self-Interpretation......Page 85
6. The Rhetoric of Self-Interpretation......Page 104
7. The Mythology of Self-Interpretation......Page 134
Part Three: The Problem of Self-Interpretation in Later Books......Page 158
Introduction......Page 160
8. The Legend of Temperance: Self-Interpretation from the Ground Up......Page 162
9. Self-Interpretation and Self-Assertion in Books Three and Four......Page 175
10. Self-Interpretation Beyond the Pale in Books Five and Six......Page 194
CONCLUSION: The Mutability Cantos and the Limits of Self-Interpretation......Page 218
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 224
INDEX......Page 234