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Metaphor and Belief in The Faerie Queene

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  • © 1997

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  1. Rufus Wood
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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: The Elizabethan Poetics of Metaphor

    • Rufus Wood
    Pages 1-27

  3. Metaphor as an Act of Faith

    • Rufus Wood
    Pages 28-75

  4. Metaphor as a Process of Change

    • Rufus Wood
    Pages 76-126

  5. Metaphor as an Act of Idolatry

    • Rufus Wood
    Pages 127-180

  6. Meta-Metaphors

    • Rufus Wood
    Pages 181-204

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 205-233
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Rufus Wood contextualizes his study of The Faerie Queene through an initial discussion of attitudes towards metaphor expressed in Elizabethan poetry. He reveals how Elizabethan writers voice a commitment to metaphor as a means of discovering and exploring their world and shows how the concept of a metaphoric principle of structure underlying Elizabethan poetics generates an exciting interpretation of The Faerie Queene. The debate which emerges concerning the use and abuse of metaphor in allegorical poetry provides a valuable contribution to the field of Spenser studies in particular and Renaissance literature in general.

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RUFUS WOOD

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