چکیده:
The present paper argues that the patriarchal paradigm of the Renaissance which
silences and suppresses the woman is hidden in Spenser’s wedding song.
Silencing is achieved through addressivity. The addressor of the poem is a male
figure who can be taken as the mouthpiece of the patriarchal order of Elizabethan
era. One of the addressees in the poem is Elizabeth, Spenser’s wife, who can be
considered as the representative of women in that era. These discursive
formations are hidden within marriage which acts as an ISA to achieve indirect
domination. The wedding song is the area of contest and conflict the resolution
of which lies in Spenser’s manipulation of addressivity. The addressive nature of
language and by extension “Epithalamion” creates the illusion of dialogicity; but,
the addressees are silent recipients of the dominant ideology. Thus the song as a
whole is an act of hailing which leaves no place for the agency and voice of
woman. Spenser’s apparent dialogue is an inner monologue in which the
discourse of the Renaissance is embedded.
خلاصه ماشینی:
"Addressivity and Silencing Woman: Bakhtinian- Althusserian Reading of Edmund Spenser’s "Epithalamion" Saman Zoleikhaei English Literature, MA, Shahid Beheshti University Abstract The present paper argues that the patriarchal paradigm of the Renaissance which silences and suppresses the woman is hidden in Spenser’s wedding song.
The addressive nature of language and by extension "Epithalamion" creates the illusion of dialogicity; but, the addressees are silent recipients of the dominant ideology.
Keywords: Dialogue, Monologue, Addressivity, Addressor, Addressee, Hailing, ISA Introduction: Spenser, Bakhtin and Althusser Edmund Spenser (1552-1599) is known among the literary critics and scholars as the greatest nondramatic poet of the English Renaissance.
Diverse Addressees and Heteroglossia: Multiplicity of Voices The narrative persona addresses different groups in different parts of the poem.
The conflicting context of the poem is brought to stability and peace in the poem by subordinating all the discourses to that of the narrative persona who not only uses mythology and church as means to his end but also achieves silencing the woman.
Of course, they have no other choice since the poem is linguistic and textual and the dominant voice is given to a narrative persona who is male.
Such a plurality of voices exists in Spenser’s poem but is not equal due to the textual dominance of one narrative persona.
Taking the whole poem as a linguistic utterance, there lies the struggle amongst diverse voices, inter alia, the narrative persona, the woman, the church and the mythological figures."