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Julie Bozza
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Wow! And the last short chapter, or "Envoi", provides meta discussion of how we write literary lives from each our own individual subjectivities. This has been a fascinating ride!
— Feb 17, 2019 02:30PM
Julie Bozza
is on page 187 of 224
Chapter 6 includes great critique of Petrachism and consideration of Time. Top stuff.
— Feb 17, 2019 04:16AM
Julie Bozza
is on page 69 of 224
"The seemingly arbitrary spelling cannot quite be explained by the looseness of Elizabethan orthography. To modernise his language or remove his archaisms would be to distort his most distinctive verbal effects, many of which are achieved through variant spellings. Spenser delights in wrestling with words to make them contain multiple or contradictory meanings, or underlining their primary one." [paraphrased]
— Feb 08, 2019 05:29PM
Julie Bozza
is on page 71 of 224
Chapter Two was a careful look into Spenser's "three worlds": the English court, Ireland, and poetry. It's impossible to sympathise with his colonial attitudes towards the Irish. Which rather taints the whole project. But this is otherwise an interesting chapter.
— Feb 07, 2019 02:04PM
Julie Bozza
is on page 40 of 224
I love the Literary Lives series; this seems more academic than most. Chapter 1 is a tour de force considering the relationships between author, text and reader, as well as Spenser's identities in terms of class, race and gender. Terrific stuff.
— Feb 04, 2019 01:49PM

