Knights-Destinerrant: Spenser with Jacques Derrida

Abstract

This coauthored article approaches Spenser’s The Faerie Queene via Derrida’s The Post Card. Derrida’s text, in which he sends out increasingly errant and ill-directed calls, signals, and communications with the frustrated expectation of response, provides an apposite framework by which to address the digressive and wandering narrative strategies of Spenser’s comparably “destinerrant,” aspirational yet abjectly apostrophizing text.