Spenser's Monstrous Regiment : Elizabethan Ireland and the Poetics of Difference by Richard A. McCabe read ebook EPUB, FB2
9780198187349 English 0198187343 Gary Player is one of golf s greatest champions. As one of the Big Three of golf s golden era (with Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer), he helped launch golf as a major internationalsport. He sits fourth on the list of most major victories on thePGA Tour and built a reputation of being fearless on the courseand steely on the greens. Don t Choke is his look at what it takes toachieve success when the pressure is on. Player explains how andwhy he became a champion and what it takes to win in big-timegolf, but he also explains how learning to cope in pressure situations can help anyone. He will review the most pressure-packedsituations in his eighteen major victories and how he managed tosucceed when things were most tense.But this book is not all about golf. Player has had a long successfulcareer in business since his playing days designing golf courses, marketing golf equipment and sportswear, and more. If you want to dobetter in a boardroom or in your next job interview, Player s advice willhelp. This personal glimpse into the mind of a champion offers lessonsto everyone who has to face pressure and today that is all of us. Gary is one the greatest competitors who ever played the game. Arnold Palmer, Spenser's Monstrous Regiment examines the works of Edmund Spenser within the dual, but interactive, contexts of imperial aspiration and female 'regiment' to provide a reinterpretation of The Faerie Queene as a (frustrated) colonial romance more akin to Camoes' Os Lusiadas in its political andracial outlook than to the heroic verse of Ariosto or Tasso. It is the first study to contextualise Spenser's polemical response to the Irish colonial situation by reference to contemporary Gaelic literature, and particularly Bardic Poetry. The dialectical format of A View of the Present State of Ireland operates to exclude the Gaelic voice from participationin the Irish political debate, and contemporary criticism unwittingly participates in the exclusion through its concentration upon colonial tracts written by English politicians and planters. The present study constitutes a sustained attempt to reverse this tendency and thereby provide a newperspective for the understanding of his work. The enterprise is all the more significant to colonial studies in general in that Spenser virtually invented the techniques of interpretation, and denigration, that remained prevalent in colonial discourse for over two centuries. At the same time, the experience of writing from Ireland intensified Spenser's sense of alienation from female sovereignty and progressively displaced Virgilian with Ovidian perspectives as the would-be laureate became the critic in exile. The queen's apparent frustration of the colonial andexpansionist aspirations of Grey, Leicester, and Ralegh led to the remarkable fusion of colonial and sexual anxieties manifest in Spenser's pervasive images of anti-heroic emasculation.Richard McCabe argues that structural incoherence of The Faerie Queene is directly related to the perceived absence of male 'regiment', of 'mans well ruling hand' (5. 5. 25). The prospect of miscegenation, and the generation of racially hybrid offspring amongst the planter community, intensifiedthe dilemma by challenging Spenser's notions of national identity. His creation of an 'English' myth of origin coincided uneasily with the attempted discrediting of its Gaelic counterpart, as formulated, for example, in the Lebor Gabala Erenn. A View is therefore drawn to concede the fictive nature of the myth of origin upon which The Faerie Queene relies but without recognising, or admitting, the logical implications of this concession. If Spenser's 'faerie' race is intended to function as a metaphor for the successful assimilation ofBriton, Saxon, Angle and Norman into a unified 'English' people, the opposite process of cultural assimilation operative in Ireland (regarded by Spenser as a process of racial degeneration) challenges the validity of that metaphor and the integrity of all political 'myth'., Spenser's Monstrous Regimentis a stimulating and scholarly account of how the experience of living and writing in Ireland qualified Spenser's attitude towards female "regiment" and challenged his notions of English nationhood. Including a trenchant discussion of the influence of colonialism upon the structure, themes, imagery, and language of Spenser's poetry, this is the first major study of Spenser's canon to engage with primary Gaelic materials in its assessment of his relationship with native Irish and Old English culture., This title examines the works of Edmund Spenser within the dual, but interactive, contexts of imperial aspiration and female regiment to provide a reinterpretation of The Faerie Queene as a (frustrated) colonial romance.
9780198187349 English 0198187343 Gary Player is one of golf s greatest champions. As one of the Big Three of golf s golden era (with Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer), he helped launch golf as a major internationalsport. He sits fourth on the list of most major victories on thePGA Tour and built a reputation of being fearless on the courseand steely on the greens. Don t Choke is his look at what it takes toachieve success when the pressure is on. Player explains how andwhy he became a champion and what it takes to win in big-timegolf, but he also explains how learning to cope in pressure situations can help anyone. He will review the most pressure-packedsituations in his eighteen major victories and how he managed tosucceed when things were most tense.But this book is not all about golf. Player has had a long successfulcareer in business since his playing days designing golf courses, marketing golf equipment and sportswear, and more. If you want to dobetter in a boardroom or in your next job interview, Player s advice willhelp. This personal glimpse into the mind of a champion offers lessonsto everyone who has to face pressure and today that is all of us. Gary is one the greatest competitors who ever played the game. Arnold Palmer, Spenser's Monstrous Regiment examines the works of Edmund Spenser within the dual, but interactive, contexts of imperial aspiration and female 'regiment' to provide a reinterpretation of The Faerie Queene as a (frustrated) colonial romance more akin to Camoes' Os Lusiadas in its political andracial outlook than to the heroic verse of Ariosto or Tasso. It is the first study to contextualise Spenser's polemical response to the Irish colonial situation by reference to contemporary Gaelic literature, and particularly Bardic Poetry. The dialectical format of A View of the Present State of Ireland operates to exclude the Gaelic voice from participationin the Irish political debate, and contemporary criticism unwittingly participates in the exclusion through its concentration upon colonial tracts written by English politicians and planters. The present study constitutes a sustained attempt to reverse this tendency and thereby provide a newperspective for the understanding of his work. The enterprise is all the more significant to colonial studies in general in that Spenser virtually invented the techniques of interpretation, and denigration, that remained prevalent in colonial discourse for over two centuries. At the same time, the experience of writing from Ireland intensified Spenser's sense of alienation from female sovereignty and progressively displaced Virgilian with Ovidian perspectives as the would-be laureate became the critic in exile. The queen's apparent frustration of the colonial andexpansionist aspirations of Grey, Leicester, and Ralegh led to the remarkable fusion of colonial and sexual anxieties manifest in Spenser's pervasive images of anti-heroic emasculation.Richard McCabe argues that structural incoherence of The Faerie Queene is directly related to the perceived absence of male 'regiment', of 'mans well ruling hand' (5. 5. 25). The prospect of miscegenation, and the generation of racially hybrid offspring amongst the planter community, intensifiedthe dilemma by challenging Spenser's notions of national identity. His creation of an 'English' myth of origin coincided uneasily with the attempted discrediting of its Gaelic counterpart, as formulated, for example, in the Lebor Gabala Erenn. A View is therefore drawn to concede the fictive nature of the myth of origin upon which The Faerie Queene relies but without recognising, or admitting, the logical implications of this concession. If Spenser's 'faerie' race is intended to function as a metaphor for the successful assimilation ofBriton, Saxon, Angle and Norman into a unified 'English' people, the opposite process of cultural assimilation operative in Ireland (regarded by Spenser as a process of racial degeneration) challenges the validity of that metaphor and the integrity of all political 'myth'., Spenser's Monstrous Regimentis a stimulating and scholarly account of how the experience of living and writing in Ireland qualified Spenser's attitude towards female "regiment" and challenged his notions of English nationhood. Including a trenchant discussion of the influence of colonialism upon the structure, themes, imagery, and language of Spenser's poetry, this is the first major study of Spenser's canon to engage with primary Gaelic materials in its assessment of his relationship with native Irish and Old English culture., This title examines the works of Edmund Spenser within the dual, but interactive, contexts of imperial aspiration and female regiment to provide a reinterpretation of The Faerie Queene as a (frustrated) colonial romance.