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020			_a9781139814652 (ebook)
020			_z9781107038202 (hardback)
020			_z9781107559431 (paperback)
040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP
050	0	0	_aPR2364 _b.W55 2013
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100	1		_aWilson-Okamura, David Scott, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aSpenser's International Style / _cDavid Scott Wilson-Okamura.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2013.
300			_a1 online resource (250 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aWhy did Spenser write his epic, The Faerie Queene, in stanzas instead of a classical meter or blank verse? Why did he affect the vocabulary of medieval poets such as Chaucer? Is there, as centuries of readers have noticed, something lyrical about Spenser's epic style, and if so, why? In this accessible and wide-ranging study, David Scott Wilson-Okamura reframes these questions in a larger, European context. The first full-length treatment of Spenser's poetic style in more than four decades, it shows that Spenser was English without being insular. In his experiments with style, Spenser faced many of the same problems, and found some of the same solutions, as poets writing in other languages. Drawing on classical rhetoric and using concepts that were developed by literary critics during the Renaissance, this is an account of long-term, international trends in style, illustrated with examples from Petrarch, Du Bellay, Ariosto and Tasso.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781107038202
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139814652
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c37462 _d37462