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Autore: | Quitslund Jon A. |
Titolo: | Spenser's supreme fiction : Platonic natural philosophy and The faerie queene / / Jon A. Quitslund |
Pubblicazione: | Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2001 |
©2001 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (388 p.) |
Disciplina: | 821/.3 |
Soggetto topico: | English poetry - Greek influences |
Philosophy of nature in literature | |
Neoplatonism in literature | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | The Maker's Mind -- The Author in 1580 and 1590 -- The Subject of Gender -- The Poet's Career in 1580 and 1590 -- Dialogical Relations between Gabriel Harvey and Edmund Spenser -- The World and the Book -- Nature and Myth -- 'The whole circle or compasse of Learning' -- The Poem as Heterocosm -- 'Deepe within the mynd' -- The Poet as Magus and Viator -- Isomorphism of the Soul and the World -- Socratic and Esoteric Humanism -- Poetic and Philosophical Discourses -- Spenser's Poetry and Ficinian Platonism -- Platonic Natural Philosophy in the Aeneid -- The Organic Soul or Spiritus -- Landino's Commentary on the Aeneid -- English Protestant Responses to Platonic Natural Philosophy -- 'Within This Wide Great Vniuerse' -- Nature in The Faerie Queene: Concepts and Phenomena -- Hierarchical and Dynamic Principles -- Night and Day; Destiny, Necessity, Providence -- Fate and Fortune -- Strife and Love -- The Four Elements -- Sprights and Spirits -- Decay -- Reading the Garden of Adonis Canto -- Sources of the Source -- Reading the Garden as a Woman -- Courtly and Erudite Trattati d'Amore -- Formal Symmetries in the Garden Canto -- The Ontological Status of the Garden -- Gender Roles and Family Life in the Garden -- 'In the thickest couert of that shade' -- The Work of Mourning -- The Platonic Program of the Garden Canto -- Leone Ebreo's Exposition of Two Myths in The Symposium -- Louis Le Roy's Le Sympose de Platon -- Marsilio Ficino's De Amore -- Aristophanes' Myth and the Daughters of Chrysogone. |
Sommario/riassunto: | Quitslund argues that Spenser sought authority for his poem by grounding its narrative in a divinely ordained natural order, intelligible in terms derived from the ancient sources of poetry and philosophy. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Spenser's supreme fiction |
ISBN: | 1-282-01428-5 |
9786612014284 | |
1-4426-8011-3 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910817909703321 |
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