LEADER 03570oam 2200553I 450 001 9910154565103321 005 20230808200806.0 010 $a1-351-93787-1 010 $a1-138-37632-9 010 $a1-315-25571-5 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315255712 035 $a(CKB)3710000000965994 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4758727 035 $a(OCoLC)973039987 035 $a(BIP)63378966 035 $a(BIP)24681213 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000965994 100 $a20180706e20162009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aExemplary Spenser $evisual and poetic pedagogy in The faerie queene /$fJane Grogan 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (226 pages) $cillustrations 300 $a"First published 2009 by Ashgate Publishing"--t.p. verso. 311 08$a0-7546-6698-0 311 08$a1-351-93788-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. To fashion a gentleman or noble person : Xenophon and English Protestant poetics -- 2. Spenser's 'gallery of pictures' -- 3. 'Bad art' or good readers? Spenserian ekphrasis -- 4. Making a virtue of courtesy. 330 $aExemplary Spenser analyses the didactic poetics of The Faerie Queene, renewing attention to its avowed attempt to "fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline" and examining how Spenser mobilises his pedagogic concerns through the reading experience of the poem. Grogan's investigation shows how Spenser transacts the public life of the nation heuristically, prompting a reflective reading experience that compels engagement with other readers, other texts and other political communities. Negotiating between competing pedagogical traditions, she shows how Spenser's epic challenges the more conservative prevailing impulses of humanist pedagogy to espouse a radical didacticism capable of inventing a more active and responsible reader. To this end, Grogan examines a wide variety of Spenser's techniques and sources, including Philip Sidney's Defence of Poesy and the powerful visually-couched epistemological paradigms of early modern culture, ekphrasis among them. Importantly, Grogan examines how Spenser's didactic poetics was crucially shaped by readings of the Greek historian Xenophon's Cyropaedia, a text and influence previously overlooked by critics. Grogan concludes by reading the last book of The Faerie Queene, the Legend of Courtesy, as an attempt to reconcile his own didactic sources and poetics with the more recent tastes of his contemporaries for a courtesy theory less concerned with "vertuous and gentle discipline". Returning to the early modern reading experience, Grogan shows the sophisticated intertextual dexterity that goes into reading Spenser, where Spenserian pedagogy lies not simply in the textual body of the poem, but also in the act of reading it. 606 $aDidactic poetry, English$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEkphrasis 606 $aVisualization in literature 606 $aAuthors and readers 615 0$aDidactic poetry, English$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEkphrasis. 615 0$aVisualization in literature. 615 0$aAuthors and readers. 676 $a821/.3 700 $aGrogan$b Jane$cDr.,$0892630 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910154565103321 996 $aExemplary Spenser$91993870 997 $aUNINA