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Transforming Desire: Erotic Knowledge in Books III and IV of the Faerie Queene

Transforming Desire: Erotic Knowledge in Books III and IV of the Faerie Queene

Silberman, Lauren

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Literary CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0520301714
ISBN13: 9780520301719
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Apr 20 2018
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Faerie Queene anticipates postmodernist concerns with destabilizing language, and Lauren Silberman's stimulating study of Books III and IV of the poem proceeds from the assumption that Spenser has something important to say to us in the late twentieth century. In these books, Spenser exposes fictions of total control for what they are--fictions. The text affirms the value of risk and improvisation over the temptation to seek guarantees. The books examine the role of desire in moving us to function in an uncertain world and tempting us to foreclose that uncertainty by strategies that seek to frame knowledge through total mastery of it.

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