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| 論文名稱 | The Idea of Anemnesis in Spenser’s Turret-Stanzas |
| 研討會開始日期 | 2016-10-29 |
| 研討會結束日期 | 2016-10-29 |
| 所有作者 | 蔡珮琪 |
| 作者順序 | 第一作者 |
| 通訊作者 | 否 |
| 研討會名稱 | 第二十四屆英美文學學術研討會 |
| 是否具有對外公開徵稿及審稿制度 | 是 |
| 研討會舉行之國家 | NATTWN-中華民國 |
| 研討會舉行之城市 | 新竹 |
| 發表年份 | 2016 |
| 所屬計劃案 | 無 |
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[英文摘要] :
The Idea of Anemnesis in Spenser’s Turret-Stanzas
In Book II of The Faerie Queen, at the end of Guyon and Arthur’s tour of the House of Temperance, the two knights visit the head / brain of the allegorized ideal temperate body, where three sages in three disparate rooms represent future, present and past respectively. Here, the first sage embodying future is named Phantastes, whose name has already revealed an idea of future not so much a positive looking-forward or foresight as a chaotic assemblage of devices, visions, dreams, phantasies, prophesies, lies, etc. The unnamed sage in the second room, who stands for present, is delineated with more positive, though remarkably shorter descriptions, whereas in the third room of the past, the old sage Eumnestes, or Memory, is buried in infinite remembrance and endless writing. The turret-brain stanzas, in addition to their significance as the supposed seat of reason in the ideal temperate body, can also be construed as Spenser’s meditation on the ideas of temporarily, about their order and ranking, and more specifically, about their association with Neo-platonic ideas of memory, history, and writing as is discussed in Plato’s Phaedrus, where the ideas of anemnesis (recollection of the ideal Forms), memory, and writing are discussed through Socrates’s elenchus. In fact, the renowned Spenser scholar, Harry Berger, has commented that there is “an emphasis on written documents” which seems to be “a direct reminder of the contrary doctrine stated by Plato in the Phaedrus” (79). This paper, hence, aims to examine Spenser’s idea of temporality—the past, present, and future as is allegorized in the turret stanzas, evaluates his adaptation of Plato’s Phaedrus, specifically about the ideas of anemnesis and writing, and finally argues how the turret stanzas may not be so much a direct contrary to Plato’s Phaedrus as Berger suggests.
Keywords: Edmund Spenser; The Faerie Queene, Plato; Phaedrus; anemnesis;
