2008-01-012024-05-18https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/710138摘要：本計畫的主題可分為當代文學與文化理論，以及文藝復興文學兩大部份。就理論部份而言，本計畫探討的起點是Giorgio Agamben近幾年在Homo Sacer與State of Exception中所分析的君權「未決」狀態：君權外於法律的「例外」狀態即是其內在於法律中的位置。Agamben的君權研究追溯至羅馬法以及奧古斯都的繼承問題。本計畫企圖從他所提出的新解釋架構出發並納入Michel Foucault、Slavoj &#381;i&#382;ek等人相關的說法，重新檢視Ernst H. Kantorowicz在中古政治哲學與近代君主制度上的重要研究The King’s Two Bodies，並連結上關於英國十六世紀君權議題的討論與研究。就文學部份而言，本計畫討論的主要對象是Edmund Spenser在《仙后》（主要為第三、五卷）中關於君權或至上統治權的相關敘述。在第三卷中，Merlin對Britomart以及都鐸皇室繼承危機的預言是以Anchises在The Aeneid中關於奧古斯都繼承危機的預言為模本。以上述理論探討為基礎，本計畫將分析Spenser的繼承危機段落所隱含的君權想像，進而對照Spenser於第五卷中所呈現的兩種君權運作：藏於祭壇下看不見的蛇是Geryoneo暴政統治的權力來源，而亞瑟王子訴諸天命殺除Geryoneo的情節則內含「正義」的君權運作模式。此外，本計畫也將納入Spenser在《愛爾蘭狀況之觀察》中關於處理愛爾蘭問題的說法與其中所隱含的帝國統治模式，以資對照Geryoneo暴政的寓指：西班牙國王Philip在低地國的帝國統治模式。<br> Abstract: This research project aims at two main subjects: contemporary literary and cultural theories, and Renaissance literature. (1) In the part of theory, my starting point and main source of inspiration is Giorgio Agamben’s recent exploration of sovereignty in his Homo Sacer and State of Exception. According to him, the “undecidable” position of the sovereign inheres in his exceptional externality within the law. Agamben traces back to Roman Law this sovereign topology and exemplifies it by analyzing the crisis of inheritance of Augustus’s throne. Resorting to Agamben’s new interpretive approach and other related theoretical accounts (e.g., those of Michel Foucault and Slavoj &#381;i&#382;ek), this research project attempts to re-tackle Ernst H. Kantorowicz’s The King’s Two Bodies, a significant study of medieval political philosophy and early modern monarchy, and engage with related discussions and studies of sixteenth-century British monarchism. (2) In the part of Renaissance literature, the main text of study of this research project is Books III and V of Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, specifically those passages related to sovereignty. In Book III, Spenser models Merlin’s prophecy of the Tudor inheritance crisis on Anchises’s prophecy of the Augustan inheritance crisis in Virgil’s The Aeneid. Based on the above-mentioned theoretical study of sovereignty, this part of my research project aims to expound Spenser’s model of sovereignty or monarchy implicated in those passages. As a contrast, the two models of sovereignty as depicted in Book V will be analyzed: Geryoneo’s tyrannical sovereignty derives its power from the Dragon hidden under the alter, while Arthur’s providential intervention implies a model of sovereignty based on “justice,” the titular virtue of Book V. In addition, Spenser’s A View of the State of Ireland will be taken up, especially in terms of those accounts concerning the measure Britain should take in solving the Irish problem; the purpose is to highlight Spenser’s conception of British imperial rule and to make a comparison with the allegorical referent of the Geryoneo episode: the imperial rule superimposed on the Low Countries by the Spanish sovereign Philip.阿甘本君權例外君主制文藝復興英國文學史賓色仙后伊莉莎白一世正義愛爾蘭狀況之觀察AgambensovereigntyexceptionmonarchyRenaissance English literatureSpenserThe Faerie QueeneElizabeth IjusticeA View of the State of Ireland