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Judith H. Anderson conceives the intertext as a relation between or among texts that encompasses both Kristevan intertextuality and traditional relationships of influence, imitation, allusion, and citation. Like the Internet, the intertext is a state, or place, of potential expressed in ways ranging from deliberate emulation to linguistic free play. Relatedly, the intertext is also a convenient fiction that enables examination of individual agency and sociocultural determinism. Anderson's intertext is allegorical because Spenser's Faerie Queene is pivotal to her study and because allegory, understood as continued or moving metaphor, encapsulates, even as it magnifies, the process of signification. Intro -- Contents -- Prior Publication -- Introduction: Reading the Allegorical Intertext -- PART 1: ALLEGORICAL REFLECTIONS OF THE CANTERBURY TALES IN THE FAERIE QUEENE -- 1. Chaucer's and Spenser's Reflexive Narrators -- 2. What Comes after Chaucer's But in The Faerie Queene -- 3. ''Pricking on the plaine'': Spenser's Intertextual Beginnings and Endings -- 4. Allegory, Irony, Despair: Chaucer's Pardoner's and Franklin's Tales and Spenser's Faerie Queene, Books I and III -- 5. Eumnestes' ''immortall scrine'': Spenser's Archive -- 6. Spenser's Use of Chaucer's Melibee: Allegory, Narrative, History -- PART 2: AGENCY, ALLEGORY, AND HISTORY WITHIN THE SPENSERIAN INTERTEXT -- 7. Spenser's Muiopotmos and Chaucer's Nun's Priest's Tale -- 8. Arthur and Argante: Parodying the Ideal Vision -- 9. Chaucer's Parliament of Fowls and Refractions of a Veiled Venus in The Faerie Queene -- 10. The Antiquities of Fairyland and Ireland -- 11. Better a mischief than an inconvenience: ''The saiying self '' in Spenser's View of the Present State of Ireland -- PART 3: SPENSERIAN ALLEGORY IN THE INTERTEXTS OF SHAKESPEARE AND MILTON -- 12. The Conspiracy of Realism: Impasse and Vision in The Faerie Queene and Shakespeare's King Lear -- 13. Venus and Adonis: Spenser, Shakespeare, and the Forms of Desire -- 14. Flowers and Boars: Surmounting Sexual Binarism in Spenser's Garden of Adonis -- 15. Androcentrism and Acrasian Fantasies in the Bower of Bliss -- 16. Beyond Binarism: Eros/Death and Venus/Mars in Antony and Cleopatra and The Faerie Queene -- 17. Patience and Passion in Shakespeare and Milton -- 18. ''Real or Allegoric'' in Herbert and Milton: Thinking through Difference -- 19. Spenser and Milton: The Mind's Allegorical Place -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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