Plato baptized. Towards the Interpretation of Spenser's Mimetic Fictions. - BIEMAN, E.,
towards the interpretation of Spenserʼs mimetic fictions
KORTE INHOUD
Plato Baptized places a variety of Spenser?s texts in the history of speaking, writing, reading, and interpreting which stretches from Plato?s mentors, Pythagoras and Socrates, to the present. Expansive and formidable in its complexity of argument, yet constantly lucid, the book presents its own perceptive readings of Spenser and his literary forebears as instances of ?participatory mimesis ? a process Elizabeth Bieman identifies as central in the tradition of biblicized Platonism and Neoplatonism which informed Spenser?s habits of thinking. The first five chapters offer a diachronic thread through the maze of ancient texts, philosophical and biblical, which Spenser assimilated synchronically, and from which he drew the paradigms of image and language that represented for older readers evidences of his Christian humanist ?faith.? The later chapters explore Spenser?s ever-equivocal metaphoric language, through fictions that represent all levels of the human souk, cross-connecting and unifying the world of inte...
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1988Uitgever: University of Toronto Press325 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0802057675ISBN-13: 9780802057679Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Toronto, 1988. X,325p. Cloth. Nice copy. [Antiquarian] [Auteur: BIEMAN, E.,] [Uitgever: University of Toronto Press] [Jaar: 1988] [Titel: Plato baptized. Towards the Interpretation of Spenser's Mimetic Fictions.]
