03946nam 2200721Ia 450 991045923470332120200520144314.01-282-67321-197866126732143-11-022885-810.1515/9783110228854(CKB)2670000000030353(EBL)548116(OCoLC)733240271(SSID)ssj0000430029(PQKBManifestationID)11271461(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000430029(PQKBWorkID)10453090(PQKB)10239291(MiAaPQ)EBC548116(DE-B1597)38984(OCoLC)659579798(OCoLC)731643164(DE-B1597)9783110228854(PPN)175596301(Au-PeEL)EBL548116(CaPaEBR)ebr10399380(CaONFJC)MIL267321(EXLCZ)99267000000003035320100308d2010 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrTransparency and dissimulation[electronic resource] configurations of Neoplatonism in early modern English literature /Verena Olejniczak LobsienBerlin ;New York De Gruyterc20101 online resource (318 p.)Transformationen der Antike,1864-5208 ;Bd. 16Description based upon print version of record.3-11-022884-X Includes bibliographical references and index. Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION »GOOD WORKS« AND »FINE THINGS« -- CHAPTER 2: CIRCULARITIES OR THE POETICS OF RETURN -- CHAPTER 3: KNOWLEDGE AND HAPPINESS -- CHAPTER 4: TRANSPARENT SPHERES, OR THE BEAUTY OF CREATION -- CHAPTER 5: TRANSPARENT DUPLICITIES -- BackmatterTransparency and Dissimulation analyses the configurations of ancient neoplatonism in early modern English texts. In looking closely at poems and prose writings by authors as diverse as Thomas Wyatt, Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, John Donne, Edward Herbert, Andrew Marvell, Thomas Traherne, Thomas Browne and, last not least, Aphra Behn, this study attempts to map the outlines of a neoplatonic aesthetics in literary practice as well as to chart its transformative potential in the shifting contexts of cultural turbulency and denominational conflict in 16th- and 17th-century England. As part of a "new", contextually aware, aesthetics, it seeks to determine some of the functions neoplatonic structures - such as forms of recursivity or certain modes of apophatic speech - are capable of fulfilling in combination and interaction with other, heterogeneous or even ideologically incompatible elements. What emerges is a surprisingly versatile poetics of excess and enigma, with strong Plotinian and Erigenist accents. This appears to need the traditional ingredients of petrarchism or courtliness only as material for the formation of new and dynamic wholes, revealing its radical metaphysical potential above all in the way it helps to resist the easy answers - in religion, science, or the fashions of libertine love. Transformationen der Antike ;Bd. 16.English literatureEarly modern, 1500-1700History and criticismNeoplatonism in literatureEnglish literatureGreek influencesRenaissanceEnglandElectronic books.English literatureHistory and criticism.Neoplatonism in literature.English literatureGreek influences.Renaissance820.9/382Lobsien Verena Olejniczak1031478MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910459234703321Transparency and dissimulation2448888UNINA