Resisting Allegory

Spenser is a delirious poet. He can’t plough straight. What he builds is shiftier, twistier , than anything dreamed up or put down by M. C. Escher. So begins Resisting Allegory , in which the leading Spenser critic of our time sums up a lifelong commitment to the theory and practice of textual interpretation. Spenser’s great poem provides the occasion for a searching and comprehensive interdisciplinary exploration of reading practices¾those the author advocates as well as those he adapts or crit