Spenser's Supreme Fiction : : Platonic Natural History and The Faerie Queene / / Jon A. Quitslund.
In Spenser's Supreme Fiction, Jon A. Quitslund offers a rich analysis of The Faerie Queene and of several texts contributing to the revival of Platonism stimulated by Marsilio Ficino's labours as a translator and interpreter of Plato and the ancient Neoplatonists. To the old issue of the s...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2001 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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