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Vitalizing the September woodcut of 'The Shepheardes Calender'
by Tiffany Jo Werth, Chris Barrett, Todd Borlik, Dennis Britton, Vin Nardizzi, Jessica Rosenberg

What might happen if a few intrepid ecologically-minded literary scholars of sixteenth-century England were to turn their eyes and ears towards the various entities populating the woodcuts accompanying Edmund Spenser’s 1579 The Shepheardes Calender? What might the clouds, the innocuous seeming fences and borders, the still cottages, grazing sheep and simple landscapes, even the homely human shepherds, say? What insights might they tell us about their environment or their eclogue? How might they speak of the past to the present moment of 2020? Tiffany Jo Werth introduces and curates short musings from Chris Barrett, Todd Borlik, Dennis Britton, Vin Nardizzi and Jessica Rosenberg which tease out the structural functions of non-typographical elements, reading them against the textual grain, and listening to how the visual environs of The Shepheardes Calender are a haunting of— uninhabitable and inhospitable—worlds. Read more…

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Tiffany Jo Werth, Chris Barrett, Todd Borlik, Dennis Britton, Vin Nardizzi, Jessica Rosenberg, "Vitalizing the September woodcut of 'The Shepheardes Calender'," Spenser Review (Fall 2020).
http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/spenseronline/review/volume-50/503/vitalising-the-september-woodcut-of-the-shepheardes-calender
Accessed April 26th, 2024.
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