Spenser's Allegory —— The Anatomy of Imagination

----- 斯宾塞的寓言：想象力的解剖

ISBN: 9780691617138 出版年：2015 页码：459 MacCaffrey, Isabel Gamble Princeton University Press

Isabel maccaffrey contends that, in allegory, the mind makes a model of itself, and she shows that the faerie queene, mirroring as it does the mind's structure, is both a treatise on and an example of the central role that imagination plays in human life. Viewing the poem as a model of spenser's universe, the author investigates the poet's theory of knowledge and the role of imagination in the construction of cosmic models. She begins with a survey of theories of the imagination and the creation of fictions, establishing a context in which allegorical images may be understood throughout the european allegorical tradition to which the faerie queene belongs.