ENGL 231: |
Studies in Renaissance Literature
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The Faerie Queene |
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| Spring 2007 |
| Instructor: James Kearney |
| Meets on: M 200-430 - SH 2716 |
| Prerequisites: Graduate standing |
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| Content of the course will vary from quarter to quarter and these courses may be repeated for credit with consent of the chair of the departmental graduate committee. |
In this course we will read Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene in its entirety. Our goal will be to attend to the ways in which Spenser's epic is responsive both to literary tradition and to the pressing concerns of the historical moment in which it was written. Topics of discussion will include epic, romance, and genre theory; allegory and Christian hermeneutics; iconoclasm and literary form; representations of gender; erotic language and sexual desire; ethnography and the project of empire; and England's presence in Ireland and the New World. |
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