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Spenser's supreme fiction : Platonic natural philosophy and The faerie queene / Jon A. Quitslund.
De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Quitslund, Jon A., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599--Philosophy.
- Spenser, Edmund.
- Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599. Faerie queene.
- Plato--Influence.
- Plato.
- Faerie queene (Spenser, Edmund).
- English poetry--Greek influences.
- English poetry.
- Philosophy of nature in literature.
- Neoplatonism in literature.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (388 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-01428-5
- 9786612014284
- 1-4426-8011-3
- OCLC:
- 288097291
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