※ [本文轉錄自 NTU07DFLL 看板] 作者: titdnic (傑克維) 看板: NTU07DFLL 標題: [公告] 3/11外文系學術演講 時間: Fri Feb 20 17:39:37 2009 國立臺灣大學外國語文學系學術演講 DFLL Faculty Colloquium (若需公務人員終身學習時數認證者，研習後可登錄時數2小時） 'Authoress of a Whole World’: An Alchemical Reading of Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World Speaker: Dr. Tien-yi Chao (DFLL Assistant Professor) 演講人：趙恬儀助理教授（臺大外文系助理教授） Moderator: Dr. Hsin-ying Li (DFLL Associate Professor) 主持人：李欣穎副教授（臺大外文系副教授） Time: 3:30 ~ 5:00 pm, Wednesday, March 11, 2009 時間：2009年3月11日（週三）下午3:30-5:00 Venue: DFLL New Conference Room, Gallery of NTU History (Old Main Library) 地點：臺大校史館（舊總圖）一樓外文系新會議室 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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