《仙后》中的不列颠想象与欧洲普世主义  

The Imagination of Britain in The Faerie Queene and European Universalism

作　　者：丛晓明[1] 

机构地区：[1]上海交通大学外国语学院

出　　处：《国外文学》2017年第4期71-81,共11页Foreign Literatures

摘　　要：埃德蒙·斯宾塞在《仙后》中通过对亚瑟、布里弢玛特和阿西高三个人物的塑造展开了对不列颠的想象。这三个人物关系密切,以亚瑟为核心,共同组成了代表英格兰、威尔士和爱尔兰联合的不列颠。他们都强大而正义,并且乐于主持正义。这种不列颠想象的本质是欧洲普世主义:斯宾塞诉诸自然法和新教为干涉侵占辩护,并且以双重标准对待相同的行为。现实中的受害者成了诗中三位骑士斩杀的僭主,与三位骑士交手的恶人多半有异教徒或天主教徒色彩,同时他们都以双重标准包庇纵容下属的暴行。Edmund Spenser expresses his imagination of Britain through the characterization of Arthur,Britomart and Arthegall in his The Faerie Queene.The three knights with Arthur as the key figures represent Britain as a united kingdom of England,Wales and Ireland.All three are puissant,just and ready to fight for justice.The nature of such an imagination is European universalism.Spenser resorts to natural law and Protestantism to justify intervention and invasion and applies double standards to the same behaviors.The three knights decapitate tyrants who are the victims in history;they fight with infidels and Catholics who are evil because goodness can only be represented by Protestants;they punish malefactors but condone massacres committed by their subordinates.

关 键 词：埃德蒙·斯宾塞 《仙后》 欧洲普世主义 自然法 新教 

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