The Pillars of Eternity: Time and Providence in The Faerie QueeneIrish Academic Press, 1989 - 256 Seiten The purpose of this new study is to examine the themes of time and providence as they affect the romance narrative of The Faerie Queene. From the point of view of the individual, time is destructive or benign as it affects his own interests or those of his immediate party. but as the outlook widens to that of the race the concept of perpetuity puts such judgments in a new perspective. The relationship between time and providence is one of the central issues in Western philosophy, and Spenser's exploration of the creative and destructive aspects of time from the point of view of |both the individual and the race is seen against the background of ideas available to him. But The Faerie Queene is not a discursive philosophical or theological treatise, and the intention here is not to impose a single intellectual interpretation on the intricacies of the storyline of the poem, but to examine and appreciate the various ways in which Spenser responded aesthetically to his central theme. |
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... means ex- clusively Christian . Pagan man regularly re - enacted the great paradigms of myth in elaborate rituals designed to reunite him with the primary forces of creation . The times of these rituals were sacred times in which the ...
... means ex- clusively Christian . Pagan man regularly re - enacted the great paradigms of myth in elaborate rituals designed to reunite him with the primary forces of creation . The times of these rituals were sacred times in which the ...
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... tempted beyond his power to resist was one to which Spenser obviously assented . Indeed the very fickleness of fortune means that it cannot continue indefinitely malign : So when as fortune all her spight hath showne , Providence 167.
... tempted beyond his power to resist was one to which Spenser obviously assented . Indeed the very fickleness of fortune means that it cannot continue indefinitely malign : So when as fortune all her spight hath showne , Providence 167.
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... means of fashioning images of a universe beyond comprehension , allegory with a tool for exploring it in the light of his own contradictory attitudes and aspirations . The poetry works best when , as in the Mutabilitie Cantos ...
... means of fashioning images of a universe beyond comprehension , allegory with a tool for exploring it in the light of his own contradictory attitudes and aspirations . The poetry works best when , as in the Mutabilitie Cantos ...
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PREFACE | 11 |
Wicked Time | 55 |
Iust Time | 80 |
Urheberrecht | |
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