Format:
Online Ressource (1699 KB, 319 S.)
Edition:
1. Aufl.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
311022884X
Series Statement:
Transformationen der Antike v.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.
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:
Description based upon print version of record
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Frontmatter; Table of Contents; CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION »GOOD WORKS« AND »FINE THINGS«; CHAPTER 2: CIRCULARITIES OR THE POETICS OF RETURN; CHAPTER 3: KNOWLEDGE AND HAPPINESS; CHAPTER 4: TRANSPARENT SPHERES, OR THE BEAUTY OF CREATION; CHAPTER 5: TRANSPARENT DUPLICITIES; Backmatter;
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3110228858
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110228854
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110228847
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Transparency and Dissimulation : Configurations of Neoplatonism in Early Modern English Literature
Language:
English
Keywords:
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