Princeton University Press
The Fiction of Relationship
Arnold Weinstein
Illustrated by Dan Reed
Arnold Weinstein presents a speculative and critical investiga–
tion of the notion of relationship as
it
is mirrored in literary texts,
primarily novels from the eighteenth century to the present. Lit–
erature, he argues, has the capacity to make visible what we
would otherwise fail to see about the mysterious web of relation–
ships in life and in art-not only the connections between people,
but also those between subject and world, between texts, and
between text and criticism.
"A clear and straightforward discussion of the ways in which
literatures and their comparative study must depend upon the
problematics of interpersonal and other relations.... this study
will prove as useful as it is wide-ranging... :'
-Mary Ann Caws, Graduate School, City University of New York
Ooth: $34.50 ISBN 0-691-06751-1
The Poem's Two Bodies
The Poetics of the 1590
Faerie Queene
David Lee Miller
The role of the human body as a poetic and ideological con–
struct in the 1590
Faerie Queene
provides the point of departure for
David
Lee
Miller's richly detailed treatment of Spenser's allegory.
In this major contribution to the study of Renaissance literature
and ideology, Miller finds the poem organized by a fantasy of
bodily wholeness.
The author draws on a broad range of contemporary critical
practices, including structuralism, psychoanalysis, and rhetoric,
and on numerous legal, medical, and historical texts of the
sixteenth century.
" ..• a fascinating exercise in critical triangulation that plays
Spenser's
Faerie Queene
off against post-structuralist theory and
Renaissance political theology. The king's two bodies, the specu–
lar bodies of Lacanian psychoanalysis, and the poem's two bodies
here merge and diverge in ways that brilliantly illuminate each.
Our ideas of political, poetic, and personal corporeality will
be
enriched and refined by David Miller's remarkable book:'
-Richard Helgerson, California Institute of Technology
Ooth: $29.50 ISBN 0-691-06744-9
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