※ [本文转录自 NTU07DFLL 看板] 作者: titdnic (杰克维) 看板: NTU07DFLL 标题: [公告] 3/11外文系学术演讲 时间: Fri Feb 20 17:39:37 2009 国立台湾大学外国语文学系学术演讲 DFLL Faculty Colloquium (若需公务人员终身学习时数认证者，研习後可登录时数2小时） 'Authoress of a Whole World’: An Alchemical Reading of Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World Speaker: Dr. Tien-yi Chao (DFLL Assistant Professor) 演讲人：赵恬仪助理教授（台大外文系助理教授） Moderator: Dr. Hsin-ying Li (DFLL Associate Professor) 主持人：李欣颖副教授（台大外文系副教授） Time: 3:30 ~ 5:00 pm, Wednesday, March 11, 2009 时间：2009年3月11日（周三）下午3:30-5:00 Venue: DFLL New Conference Room, Gallery of NTU History (Old Main Library) 地点：台大校史馆（旧总图）一楼外文系新会议室 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract: Published in London in 1666, The Description of A New Blazing World (usually referred to as The Blazing World) remains Cavendish’s most compelling and complex work. Emma L. E. Rees views the text as ‘a fiction of mind’, in which the ‘overt configuration of an omnipotent female ruler represents a coalescence of the themes of this book’. In order to explore its volatile and versatile narratives, my study re-evaluates the text in the intellectual milieu of early modern alchemy, a subject gradually gaining scholarly attention in recent years. As Lyndy Abraham points out, ‘Since such knowledge [alchemy] is no longer part of the general twentieth-century storehouse of reference, its recovery can assist the reader in gaining a new perspective on the work of writers in the seventeenth century.’ Building on Abraham’s approach to early modern literary texts, I argue that The Blazing World contains extensive alchemical allegories and imagery, a significant feature shared by John Donne and Edmund Spenser. In this paper, I want to look at alchemical discourses surrounding the heroine’s image as an androgynous ‘Mercurian Monarch’ and her creation of worlds. These issues are discussed in parallel with the ideas of transmutation and ‘The One’ presented by alchemists such as Paracelsus and Michael Sendivogius (Michal Sedziwój), so as to examine the ways in which the Duchess of Newcastle portrays both her female protagonist and herself as a ‘Happy Creatoress’ and a ruler of various worlds. --

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