Spenser Studies: A Renaissance Poetry Annual, XIII.Prescott, Anne Lake and Thomas P. Roche, Jr., eds. Spenser Studies: A Renaissance Poetry Annual, XIII. New York: AMS AMS - Andrew Message System Press, 1999. vi + 296 pp. illus, index. $72.45. ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m : 0-404-19213-0. An annual "forum for Spenser scholarship and criticism and related Renaissance subjects," the selected essays cover innovative new treatments of The Shepheardes Calender CALENDER. An almanac. Julius Caesar ordained that the Roman year should consist of 365 days, except every fourth year, which should contain 366, the additional day to be reckoned by counting the twenty-fourth day of February (which was the 6th of the calends of March) twice. , The Faerie Queene, Astrophel, and the View of the Present State of Ireland. Also included are shorter pieces under the categories of "Forum" (includeing responses to essays in prior issues) and "Gleanings glean·ings pl.n. Things that have been collected bit by bit: the gleanings of patient scholars. gleanings Noun, pl pieces of information that have been gleaned " (brief notes of interest related to Spenser's works). Illustrated and indexed. Essays include: Nancy Lindheim, "The Virgilian Design of The Shepheardes Calender"; Sherri Geller, "You Can't Tell a Book by Its Contents: (Mis)Interpretation in/of Spenser's The Shepheardes Calender"; Lynette C. Black, "Prudence in Book II of The Faerie Queene"; Matthew A. Fike, "Spenser's Merlin Reconsidered"; Kenneth Gross, "Reflections on the Blatant Beast"; Maria R. Rohr Philmus, "The Case of the Spenserian Sonnet: A Curious Re-Creation"; Mark David Rasmussen, "Spenser's Plaintive Muses"; Craig Rustici, "Muiopotmos: Spenser's 'Complaint' against Aesthetics" ; Mary Joan Cook, "The Other Meaning of 'Bridal Day' in Spenser's Prothalamion Prothalamion Spenser’s poem celebrating the double marriage of the two daughters of the Earl of Worcester. [Br. Poetry: Haydn & Fuller, 615] See : Marriage "; Kenneth Borris, "Elizabethan Allegorical Epics: The Arcadias as Counterparts"; Stephen M. Buhler, "Pre-Christian Apologetics apologetics Branch of Christian theology devoted to the intellectual defense of faith. In Protestantism, apologetics is distinguished from polemics, the defense of a particular sect. In Roman Catholicism, apologetics refers to the defense of the whole of Catholic teaching. in Spenser and Sidney: Pagan Philosophy and the Process of Metanoia Metanoia (from the Greek μετανοῖα, metanoia, changing one's mind, repentance) is a rhetorical device used to retract a statement just made, and then state it in a better way.[1] It is similar to correctio. "; Chauncey Wood, "'With Wit My Wit is Marred': Reason, Wit, and Wittiness in Sir Philip Sidney's Astrophil and Stella"; Jean R. Brink, "Spenser and the Irish Question: Reply to Andrew Hadfield"; Carol Kaske, "The Word 'Checklaton' and the Authorship of A Vewe"; A. Kent Hieatt, "Male Boldness and Female Rights: What the Isle of Venus Proposes"; Tom Parker, "108 Uses of 108"; Elizabeth Porges Watson, "Mr. Fox's Mottoes in the House of Busirane." |
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