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Since his first book in 1957, Harry Berger has remained a model for each successive generation of Spenser scholars-to many of us, the leading figure of our lifetimes. Resisting Allegory, a beguiling exercise in his late style, continues the lifelong work of engaging the allegorical project of The Faerie Queene in intellectually expansive ways. Every reader and scholar of Spenser will want this book. -- Roland Greene, Stanford University Berger's new volume on Spenser's narrative poem will be essential to all Renaissance scholars. Like Berger's earlier books, Resisting Allegory develops and complicates our thinking on The Faerie Queene along a number of fronts. Berger's notion of narrative complicity, familiar now through his famous readings of Shakespeare, is richer and more complex for its encounter with Spenser and with gender analysis. -- Theresa Krier, Macalester College

Resisting Allegory is our latest occasion to spend time thinking and laughing along with Harry, with the critic's critic as he reads the poet's poet.---Jeff Dolven, The Spenser Review Since his first book in 1957, Harry Berger has remained a model for each successive generation of Spenser scholars-to many of us, the leading figure of our lifetimes. Resisting Allegory, a beguiling exercise in his late style, continues the lifelong work of engaging the allegorical project of The Faerie Queene in intellectually expansive ways. Every reader and scholar of Spenser will want this book. -- Roland Greene, Stanford University Berger's new volume on Spenser's narrative poem will be essential to all Renaissance scholars. Like Berger's earlier books, Resisting Allegory develops and complicates our thinking on The Faerie Queene along a number of fronts. Berger's notion of narrative complicity, familiar now through his famous readings of Shakespeare, is richer and more complex for its encounter with Spenser and with gender analysis. -- Theresa Krier, Macalester College

Spenserians continue to learn from Berger's early career close readings of Spenser's text; we take delight in hearing Berger's voice and watching him play in the text he has constructed subsequently.-- ""Journal of British Studies"" Berger's new volume on Spenser's narrative poem will be essential to all Renaissance scholars. Like Berger's earlier books, Resisting Allegory develops and complicates our thinking on The Faerie Queene along a number of fronts. Berger's notion of narrative complicity, familiar now through his famous readings of Shakespeare, is richer and more complex for its encounter with Spenser and with gender analysis.---Theresa Krier, Macalester College Since his first book in 1957, Harry Berger has remained a model for each successive generation of Spenser scholars--to many of us, the leading figure of our lifetimes. Resisting Allegory, a beguiling exercise in his late style, continues the lifelong work of engaging the allegorical project of The Faerie Queene in intellectually expansive ways. Every reader and scholar of Spenser will want this book.---Roland Greene, Stanford University Resisting Allegory is our latest occasion to spend time thinking and laughing along with Harry, with the critic's critic as he reads the poet's poet.---Jeff Dolven, The Spenser Review

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Harry Berger (Author) Harry Berger, Jr., is Professor Emeritus of Literature and Art History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His most recent books include Figures of a Changing World: Metaphor and the Emergence of Modern Culture and A Fury in the Words: Love and Embarrassment in Shakespeare’s Venice (both Fordham). Harry Berger, Jr., is Professor Emeritus of Literature and Art History and a Fellow of Cowell College at the University of California, Santa Barbara. A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is the author of fourteen books, most recently Harrying: Skills of Offense in Shakespeare's Henriad (Fordham, 2016). David Lee Miller (Edited By) David Lee Miller is Carolina Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina. He is the author of Dreams of the Burning Child: Sacrifiial Sons and the Father’s Witness (Cornell, 2003) and The Poem’s Two Bodies: The Poetics of the 1590 Faerie Queene (Princeton, 1988).

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