Plato Baptized : : Towards the Interpretation of Spenser's Mimetic Fictions / / Elizabeth Bieman.

Plato Baptized places a variety of Spenser?s texts in the history of speaking, writing, reading, and interpreting which stretches from Plato?s mentors, Pythagoras and Socrates, to the present. Expansive and formidable in its complexity of argument, yet constantly lucid, the book presents its own per...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©1988
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (325 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. To discouer ... the general intention’: A Methodological Introduction
  • 2.‘For wisedome is most riches’: Plato and His Socrates
  • 3. ‘Each vnto himselfe’: Systematizers, Seekers, and Seers
  • 4. ‘A temple faire and auncient’: The Plotinian Paradigm
  • 5. ‘All that moueth, doth mutation loue’: Metamorphoses and Baptism
  • 6. ‘Through hardy enterprise’: Approaching Spenser
  • 7. 'Beginning then below': Questioning in Love
  • 8. ‘Twixt them both’: Questions Arising in Society
  • 9. ‘Upon the Pillours of Eternity’: The Fusion of Horizons
  • 10. ‘Speeches few’: An Afterword
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index