Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-221) and index.
'To direct your understanding': allegory, or 'authoritative' commentary -- 'This and that': the experience of allegory -- Allegorical characters -- The locus of self-interpretation -- Specious and valid paradigms of self-interpretation -- The rhetoric of self-interpretation -- The mythology of self-interpretation -- The legend of temperance: self-interpretation from the ground up -- Self-interpretation and self-assertion in books three and four -- Self-interpretation beyond the pale in books five and six -- The mutability cantos and the limits of self-interpretation.
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Self-interpretation in The faerie queene.
Spenser, Edmund,1552?-1599., Faerie queene.
Spenser, Edmund., Faerie queene.
Faerie queene (Spenser, Edmund)
Allegory.
Epic poetry, English-- History and criticism.
Self in literature.
Symbolism in literature.
Allegory.
Epic poetry, English.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES-- Linguistics-- General.