LEADER 04138nam 2200793Ia 450 001 9910811931203321 005 20240508102005.0 010 $a1-282-67321-1 010 $a9786612673214 010 $a3-11-022885-8 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110228854 035 $a(CKB)2670000000030353 035 $a(EBL)548116 035 $a(OCoLC)733240271 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000430029 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11271461 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000430029 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10453090 035 $a(PQKB)10239291 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC548116 035 $a(DE-B1597)38984 035 $a(OCoLC)659579798 035 $a(OCoLC)731643164 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110228854 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL548116 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10399380 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL267321 035 $a(PPN)175596301 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000030353 100 $a20100308d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTransparency and dissimulation $econfigurations of Neoplatonism in early modern English literature /$fVerena Olejniczak Lobsien 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBerlin ;$aNew York $cDe Gruyter$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (318 p.) 225 1 $aTransformationen der Antike,$x1864-5208 ;$vBd. 16 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a3-11-022884-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tTable of Contents -- $tCHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION »GOOD WORKS« AND »FINE THINGS« -- $tCHAPTER 2: CIRCULARITIES OR THE POETICS OF RETURN -- $tCHAPTER 3: KNOWLEDGE AND HAPPINESS -- $tCHAPTER 4: TRANSPARENT SPHERES, OR THE BEAUTY OF CREATION -- $tCHAPTER 5: TRANSPARENT DUPLICITIES -- $t Backmatter 330 $aTransparency and Dissimulation analyses the configurations of ancient neoplatonism in early modern English texts. In looking closely at poems and prose writings by authors as diverse as Thomas Wyatt, Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, John Donne, Edward Herbert, Andrew Marvell, Thomas Traherne, Thomas Browne and, last not least, Aphra Behn, this study attempts to map the outlines of a neoplatonic aesthetics in literary practice as well as to chart its transformative potential in the shifting contexts of cultural turbulency and denominational conflict in 16th- and 17th-century England. As part of a "new", contextually aware, aesthetics, it seeks to determine some of the functions neoplatonic structures - such as forms of recursivity or certain modes of apophatic speech - are capable of fulfilling in combination and interaction with other, heterogeneous or even ideologically incompatible elements. What emerges is a surprisingly versatile poetics of excess and enigma, with strong Plotinian and Erigenist accents. This appears to need the traditional ingredients of petrarchism or courtliness only as material for the formation of new and dynamic wholes, revealing its radical metaphysical potential above all in the way it helps to resist the easy answers - in religion, science, or the fashions of libertine love. 410 0$aTransformationen der Antike ;$vBd. 16. 606 $aEnglish literature$yEarly modern, 1500-1700$xHistory and criticism 606 $aNeoplatonism in literature 606 $aEnglish literature$xGreek influences 606 $aRenaissance$zEngland 610 $aEarly Modern Culture. 610 $aEarly Modern English Literature. 610 $aLiterary Aesthetics. 610 $aNeoplatonism. 610 $aTransformations of Antiquity. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aNeoplatonism in literature. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xGreek influences. 615 0$aRenaissance 676 $a820.9/382 686 $aHK 1075$2rvk 700 $aLobsien$b Verena Olejniczak$01719716 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910811931203321 996 $aTransparency and dissimulation$94117785 997 $aUNINA