Type
Text
Type
Thesis
Advisor
Pfeiffer, Douglas | Robinson, Benedict.
Date
2015-12-01
Keywords
Literature
Department
Department of English.
Language
en_US
Source
This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree.
Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/11401/77570
Publisher
The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY.
Format
application/pdf
Abstract
This thesis aims to explore the tension with how Edmund Spenser uses images and the method of ekphrasis and how they lead to interpretive tension on the part of the reader in the epic poem The Faerie Queene. Close readings of selected passages within Book III of The Faerie Queene as well as discussion of secondary scholarship pertaining to the piece will be used in this research. The study will conclude with how Spenser as the author was able to use interpretive tension to serve his pedagogical aims in writing this work. | 39 pages
Recommended Citation
Mathai, Joshua, "Reflected Scenes: Ekphrastic Tension in the Allegory of Chastity" (2015). Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions). 3370.
https://commons.library.stonybrook.edu/stony-brook-theses-and-dissertations-collection/3370