The Pleasing Analysis of The Faerie Queene.
In his "Letter to Raleigh," Edmund Spenser describes his project using the strange and provocative term analysis. This essay explores three ways in which the Ramist ideas closely associated with this term can inform our understanding of The Faerie Queene. First, since analysis recalls Ramism's ideal...
| Publicado en: | Studies in Philology Vol. 120; no. 1; pp. 1 - 39 |
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Winter2023
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