There is critical consensus that Medina (The Faerie Queene, II.ii) represents a mean between the errors of excess and deficiency embodied by her sisters, Elissa and Perissa. Medina's significance as a figure of moderation is first illustrated when she restores the peace between her sisters' champions Sansloy and Huddibras and Guyon, who had attempted to stop the initial strife between them. Medina's stunning irruption, and her passionate appeal to the knights to cease fighting, is stunning from a dramatic point of view, and, as the present paper will demonstrate, involves a complex and distinctly ironic allusion to the legendary Lucretia, as treated by Livy and Ovid an allusion which, in turn, forms part of Spenser's Augustinian commentary on heroism and suicide, as manifested in the deaths of Mortdant and Amavia in the immediately previous canto. By these means, the reader is made to contrast the destructive example of the maternal suicide, Amavia, in II.i, with the positive attributes of Medina, whose nobility and heroism are manifested, in Canto 2, through her nurturing, life-affirming role of hostess and peacemaker.
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The Faerie Queene, II. i-ii: Amavia, Medina, and the Myth of Lucretia
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2007 vol.15, no.2, pp.383 - 394
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2007 vol.15, no.2, pp.383 - 394
DOI : 10.17054/memes.2007.15.2.383
발행기관 : 한국고전중세르네상스영문학회
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Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Amavia, Medina, Guyon, Lucretia, Livy, Ovid, St. Augustine, suicide peace, harmony
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The Faerie Queene, II. i-ii: Amavia, Medina, and the Myth of Lucretia
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Ivan Cañadas . 2007, “The Faerie Queene, II. i-ii: Amavia, Medina, and the Myth of Lucretia”, vol.15, no.2, pp. 383 - 394. Available from: doi:10.17054/memes.2007.15.2.383
Ivan Cañadas. “The Faerie Queene, II. i-ii: Amavia, Medina, and the Myth of Lucretia“ 중세르네상스영문학 15.2 pp. 383 - 394. (2007): 383.
Ivan Cañadas . The Faerie Queene, II. i-ii: Amavia, Medina, and the Myth of Lucretia 중세르네상스영문학 [Internet]. 2007; 15(2), : 383 - 394. Available from: doi:10.17054/memes.2007.15.2.383
Ivan Cañadas . “The Faerie Queene, II. i-ii: Amavia, Medina, and the Myth of Lucretia“ 중세르네상스영문학 15, no.2, (2007): 383 - 394. doi: :10.17054/memes.2007.15.2.383