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100 1 $aSteadman, John M.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50024309
245 10 $aMoral fiction in Milton and Spenser /$cJohn M. Steadman.
260 $aColumbia :$bUniversity of Missouri Press,$c[1995], ©1995.
300 $a200 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 167-195) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tEnthousiasmos and the Persona of the Inspired Poet: DuBartas and Spenser --$g2.$tEnthousiasmos and the Persona of the Inspired Poet: Milton --$g3.$tDeterminate and Indeterminate Structures: Epic and Romance --$g4.$tDissolution and Restructuring: Space and Time in The Faerie Queene --$g5.$tSpenser's Icon of the Past: Fiction as History, a Reexamination --$g6.$tThe "Platonic Telescope": Narrative and Moral Focus in The Faerie Queene --$g7.$tMoral Fiction in Milton's Epic Plot.
520 $aIn Moral Fiction in Milton and Spenser, John M. Steadman examines how Milton and Spenser - and Renaissance poets in general - applied their art toward the depiction of moral and historical "truth." Steadman centers his study on the various poetic techniques of illusion that these poets employed in their effort to bridge the gap between truth and imaginative fiction.
520 8 $aEmphasizing the significant affinities and the crucial differences between the seventeenth-century heroic poet and his sixteenth-century "original," Steadman analyzes the diverse ways in which Milton and Spenser exploited traditional invocation formulas and the commonplaces of the poet's divine imagination.
520 8 $aSteadman suggests that these poets, along with most other Renaissance poets, did not actually regard themselves as divinely inspired but, rather, resorted to a common fiction to create the appearance of having special insight into the truth.
520 8 $aThe first section of this study traces the persona of the inspired poet in DuBartas's La Sepmaine and in The Faerie Queene and Paradise Lost. Reevaluating the views of twentieth-century critics, it emphasizes the priority of conscious fiction over autobiographical "fact" in these poets' adaptations of this topos.
520 8 $aThe second section develops the contrast between the two principal heroic poems of the English Renaissance, The Faerie Queene and Paradise Lost, in terms of the contrasting aesthetic principles underlying the romance genre and the neoclassical epic.
600 10 $aMilton, John,$d1608-1674$xEthics.
650 0 $aEnglish poetry$yEarly modern, 1500-1700$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008102956
650 0 $aRomances, English$xAdaptations$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aChristian poetry, English$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008100693
650 0 $aEpic poetry, English$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103207
600 10 $aSpenser, Edmund,$d1552?-1599.$tFaerie queene.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80165530
600 10 $aSpenser, Edmund,$d1552?-1599$xEthics.
650 0 $aMoral conditions in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94006684
650 0 $aEthics in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94004075
650 0 $aPoetics.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85103703
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852 00 $bbar$hPR3592.E8$iS84 1995