LEADER 05307nam 2200781 450 001 9910455863403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-03961-X 010 $a9786612039614 010 $a1-4426-7851-8 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442678514 035 $a(CKB)2420000000004279 035 $a(OCoLC)244767044 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10200933 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000306177 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11238502 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000306177 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10295509 035 $a(PQKB)10772798 035 $a(CaPaEBR)417385 035 $a(CaBNvSL)thg00600740 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3251378 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4671833 035 $a(DE-B1597)464751 035 $a(OCoLC)944177683 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442678514 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4671833 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11257524 035 $a(EXLCZ)992420000000004279 100 $a20160922h19881988 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPlato baptized $etowards the interpretation of Spenser's mimetic fictions /$fElizabeth Bieman 210 1$aToronto, [Canada] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d1988. 210 4$dİ1988 215 $a1 online resource (336 p.) 225 0 $aHeritage 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-4426-1484-6 311 $a0-8020-5767-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $t1. To discouer ... the general intention?: A Methodological Introduction -- $t2.?For wisedome is most riches?: Plato and His Socrates -- $t3. ?Each vnto himselfe?: Systematizers, Seekers, and Seers -- $t4. ?A temple faire and auncient?: The Plotinian Paradigm -- $t5. ?All that moueth, doth mutation loue?: Metamorphoses and Baptism -- $t6. ?Through hardy enterprise?: Approaching Spenser -- $t7. 'Beginning then below': Questioning in Love -- $t8. ?Twixt them both?: Questions Arising in Society -- $t9. ?Upon the Pillours of Eternity?: The Fusion of Horizons -- $t10. ?Speeches few?: An Afterword -- $tNotes -- $tGlossary -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aPlato 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 intertextualized living. The book?s thread offers occasional egress from maze and void. Tracing the evidences of questioning and doubt now fully familiar, along with those of faith, Bieman shows skepticism and affirmation ceding place to each other continually, unsettlingly, creatively, throughout tradition. The elements that academic analysis and skeptical questioning put asunder come together in the rhythmic process of questioning, aporia, and the occasional flash of understanding that the Elizabethan theologian knew as metaphoric baptism. The process, for Spenser, ends neither in despair nor complacency; in the canon, indeed, it does not end.Bieman argues that from experiences of personal knowing ? which the mimetic languages of ancient philosophy, and biblical and Renaissance story cannot fully capture, but to, and through, which they torturously lead ? the writer, his fictive protagonists, the reader and the interpreter participate in the production of further experiences throughout which other meanings may, evanescently, be glimpsed. 606 $aChristian poetry, English$yEarly modern, 1500-1700$xHistory and criticism 606 $aChristianity and literature$zEngland$xHistory$y16th century 606 $aEnglish poetry$xGreek influences 606 $aNeoplatonism in literature 606 $aPhilosophy in literature 606 $aMimesis in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aChristian poetry, English$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aChristianity and literature$xHistory 615 0$aEnglish poetry$xGreek influences. 615 0$aNeoplatonism in literature. 615 0$aPhilosophy in literature. 615 0$aMimesis in literature. 676 $a821/.3 700 $aBieman$b Elizabeth$0687891 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455863403321 996 $aPlato Baptized$91703937 997 $aUNINA