Ekmel Emrah Hakman

Spenser’s Sandcastles: Modification of Medieval Castle Building Tradition in the Faerie Queene

Ekmel Emrah Hakman · Asian Research Journal of Arts & Social Sciences · 2025

This article examines how castles function as central allegorical structures in Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, shaping both the narrative progress of quests and the moral “fashioning of a gentleman.” Its purpose is to demonstrate that castles are not decorative romance backd...