『선녀여왕』 3권 연구: 정숙한 결합과 정숙한 글쓰기
A Study of Faerie Queene III: Chaste Union and Chaste Writing
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This paper aims to show that Edmund Spenser makes connection between the virtue of chastity and the way of representation. This study attempts to demonstrate that Spenser redefines the meaning of chastity and then applies that meaning to how the poet should adopt literary language. Spenser explores the meaning of chastity through the figure of chastity incarnate Britomart and thus suggests that she should seek for her likeness, neither too same nor too different, and strive to make a harmonious union. Such an attitude enables her to usher in a new phase, bringing about a change in the future, such as her reproduction. Accordingly, Spenser does not explore the meaning of chastity within the confines of a relationship between a man and a woman. He enlarges the boundary of chastity to encompass the realm where the dynamic energy generated by the balanced combination and alteration ensures a better future. Furthermore, Spenser attributes such a chaste union to an encounter between the literary form and the content. Accentuating the discord between diverse love stories within the book and the Petrarchan literary convention, he suggests that literary expression needs to be in accordance with the object of representation, just as the object of faithful love should be in balance between sameness and difference. For Spenser, their symmetrical union is identified with chaste representation. Therefore, chastity could refer to what would be accomplished through Britomart's chaste union with Artegall and subsequent reproduction on the one hand, or this virtue could also refer to chaste writing for Spenser on the other hand. By writing Book III, Spenser strives to search for the chaste representation, as Britomart sets out on a long quest in order to seek for the reflected image similar to herself in the mirror.
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This paper aims to show that Edmund Spenser makes connection between the virtue of chastity and the way of representation. This study attempts to demonstrate that Spenser redefines the meaning of chastity and then applies that meaning to how the poet should adopt literary language. Spenser explores the meaning of chastity through the figure of chastity incarnate Britomart and thus suggests that she should seek for her likeness, neither too same nor too different, and strive to make a harmonious union. Such an attitude enables her to usher in a new phase, bringing about a change in the future, such as her reproduction. Accordingly, Spenser does not explore the meaning of chastity within the confines of a relationship between a man and a woman. He enlarges the boundary of chastity to encompass the realm where the dynamic energy generated by the balanced combination and alteration ensures a better future. Furthermore, Spenser attributes such a chaste union to an encounter between the literary form and the content. Accentuating the discord between diverse love stories within the book and the Petrarchan literary convention, he suggests that literary expression needs to be in accordance with the object of representation, just as the object of faithful love should be in balance between sameness and difference. For Spenser, their symmetrical union is identified with chaste representation. Therefore, chastity could refer to what would be accomplished through Britomart's chaste union with Artegall and subsequent reproduction on the one hand, or this virtue could also refer to chaste writing for Spenser on the other hand. By writing Book III, Spenser strives to search for the chaste representation, as Britomart sets out on a long quest in order to seek for the reflected image similar to herself in the mirror.
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