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Fairy in The Faerie Queene
Matthew Woodcock
其他書名
Renaissance Elf-fashioning and Elizabethan Myth-making
出版Ashgate, 2004
主題History / Europe / Great Britain / GeneralHistory / Europe / Great Britain / Tudor & Elizabethan Era (1485-1603)Literary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshLiterary Criticism / PoetryLiterary Criticism / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & MythologyPoetry / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
ISBN07546343969780754634393
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=R1hbAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Why and how did Edmund Spenser employ fairy mythology in The Faerie Queene? In this book, Matthew Woodcock reasserts the importance of fairy mythology in this famous poem by demonstrating how Spenser places fairy at the very centre of his mythopoeic project. Woodcock argues that despite the continued invitations in the poem to deconstruct Gloriana, Spenser's identification of Queen Elizabeth I with the fairy queen figure is far more ambiguous than has previously been recognized. The poet is engaged both in constructing a mythological persona for the queen and in drawing attention to his own role as laureate and myth-maker. Spenser's elf-fashioning is therefore a vital part of his authorial self-fashioning. within the context of early modern conceptions and representations of fairy and discusses the representation of Elizabeth as the fairy queen in relation to the vast range of studies on Elizabethan myth-making.