Spenser's supreme fiction : Platonic natural philosophy and The faerie queene / / Jon A. Quitslund |
Autore | Quitslund Jon A. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 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. |
ISBN |
1-282-01428-5
9786612014284 1-4426-8011-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Texts and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART ONE: The Maker's Mind -- 1. The Author in 1580 and 1590 -- 2. The World and the Book -- 3. The Poet as Magus and Viator -- 4. Platonic Natural Philosophy in the Aeneid -- PART TWO: 'Within this wide great Vniuerse' -- 5. Nature in The Faerie Queene: Concepts and Phenomena -- 6. Reading the Garden of Adonis Canto -- 7. The Platonic Program of the Garden Canto -- 8. The Faerie Queene in 1596 and 1609 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- General Index -- Index of Names and Places in The Faerie Queene |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455948203321 |
Quitslund Jon A. | ||
Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2001 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Spenser's supreme fiction : Platonic natural philosophy and The faerie queene / / Jon A. Quitslund |
Autore | Quitslund Jon A. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 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. |
ISBN |
1-282-01428-5
9786612014284 1-4426-8011-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780421603321 |
Quitslund Jon A. | ||
Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2001 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Spenser's supreme fiction : Platonic natural philosophy and The faerie queene / / Jon A. Quitslund |
Autore | Quitslund Jon A. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 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. |
ISBN |
1-282-01428-5
9786612014284 1-4426-8011-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910817909703321 |
Quitslund Jon A. | ||
Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2001 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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