UID:
edocfu_9958353831602883
Format:
1 online resource (318p.)
ISBN:
9783110228854
Series Statement:
Transformationen der Antike ; 16
Content:
Transparency 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.
Note:
Frontmatter --
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Table of Contents --
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CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION »GOOD WORKS« AND »FINE THINGS«: Neoplatonic Configurations in Seventeenth-Century English Literature and Culture --
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CHAPTER 2: CIRCULARITIES OR THE POETICS OF RETURN --
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CHAPTER 3: KNOWLEDGE AND HAPPINESS --
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CHAPTER 4: TRANSPARENT SPHERES, OR THE BEAUTY OF CREATION --
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CHAPTER 5: TRANSPARENT DUPLICITIES --
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Backmatter
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 978-3-11-022884-7
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9783110228854
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110228854
