Bodies in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene: the Gestalt of male subjectivity and female subjection

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dc.contributor.advisorBond, Ronald B.
dc.contributor.authorStone, Terence
dc.date.accessioned2005-07-29T22:06:46Z
dc.date.available2005-07-29T22:06:46Z
dc.date.issued1995
dc.descriptionBibliography: p. 115-124.en
dc.description.abstractThis thesis interrogates the constitution of male "subjectivity" in its historical context between its subsumption by medieval discourses that reify corporate experience and the emergence of late Renaissance "individuality." The Faerie Queene, acutely aware of the inversion of gender power relations in its epideictic project, participates in the conceptual accrual of male subjective agency. The process is one in which the need to contain and shape representations of Elizabeth as a woman also reveals the radical operations by which male "subjectivity" is gained. A Neoplatonic gestalt suffused with Gnostic and Pauline abjection of the body natural at one pole and an ineffable realm evocative of the Platonic "idea" and Christian God at the other becomes the underlying structure by which gender representations come to shape ascendant subjective masculinity through the denunciation and subjection of femaleness.
dc.format.extentvi, 124 leaves ; 30 cm.en
dc.identifier.citationStone, T. (1995). Bodies in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene: the Gestalt of male subjectivity and female subjection (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/22623en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/22623
dc.identifier.isbn0612042588en
dc.identifier.lccPR 2358 S76 1995en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/29718
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen
dc.publisher.placeCalgaryen
dc.rightsUniversity of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.
dc.subject.lccPR 2358 S76 1995en
dc.subject.lcshSpenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599. Faerie queene
dc.subject.lcshGender identity in literature
dc.subject.lcshSubjectivity in literature
dc.titleBodies in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene: the Gestalt of male subjectivity and female subjection
dc.typemaster thesis
thesis.degree.disciplineEnglish
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Calgary
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts (MA)
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ucalgary.thesis.accessionTheses Collection 58.002:Box 1004 520538314
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