EDMUND SPENSER’S “THE FAERIE QUEEN” AS “CONTINUED ALLEGORY”: FROM EMBLEMATIC AND CONCEITED WRITING TO SYMBOLICAL

Journal Title: Studia Litterarum - Year 2016, Vol 1, Issue 3

Abstract

The article aims to direct attention of the Russian readers to the richness of Spenser’s allegorical palette in his poem “The Faerie Queene.” The words “allegory” and “symbol” are employed here in their modern sense, with reference to the defnitions discussed by scholars of literature and philosophy. In particular, the article draws on A. F. Losev’s and S. S. Averintsev’s studies of symbol and the neighboring semantic-and-structural categories (allegory, personifcation, artistic image, metaphor, and myth). Some of these terms were divorced from one another during the Romantic period. For Spenser, the borderline between allegory and symbol seems to be quite fuzzy: both of them convey hidden meaning. The discussion of passages from “The Faerie Queene” speaks for Spenser’s departure from the pure allegory. His “continued allegory” embraces emblems, extended metaphors (conceits), mythical and symbolic fgures.

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Elena V. Haltrin-Khalturina

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  • EP ID EP26106
  • DOI 10.22455/2500-4247-2016-1-3-4-92-111
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Elena V. Haltrin-Khalturina (2016). EDMUND SPENSER’S “THE FAERIE QUEEN” AS “CONTINUED ALLEGORY”: FROM EMBLEMATIC AND CONCEITED WRITING TO SYMBOLICAL. Studia Litterarum, 1(3), -. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-26106