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Entering the Conversation, Exiting the Poem Entering the Conversation, Exiting the Poem
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Marginal Skirmishes: Reading as Rivalry Marginal Skirmishes: Reading as Rivalry
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Courtesy, Critique, and the Minimal Ethics of Readerly Engagement Courtesy, Critique, and the Minimal Ethics of Readerly Engagement
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6 Blatant Beasts: Encounters With Other Readers
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Published:May 2020
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This chapter studies the final book of the 1596 edition of Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene. Discovering the presence of other readers, whether in the archive, the critical tradition, the pages of a manuscript, or the margins of a printed text, can feel like a violation of the seemingly exclusive bond between reader and text. The realization that someone has already had the response one has to a particular poem or passage can bring a pleasing sense of community. By the same token, the discovery that someone else has read a poem or passage in an utterly different sense than oneself can yield exhilaration, amusement, delight, and fascination. Above all, the awareness that one is not alone with what one reads transforms the scene of reading into a space requiring careful displays of deference or sudden and self-preserving acts of aggression—a space, in short, much like the sixth and final book of the 1596 Faerie Queene. Dispensing both with the ideal of singular perfection and with many of its earlier anxieties about aimlessness and indirection, the final book of the 1596 Faerie Queene stages reading as an ongoing intersubjective encounter between readers, texts, and other readers: a conversation in the continual making.
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