Transparency and Dissimulation : : Configurations of Neoplatonism in Early Modern English Literature / / Verena Lobsien.
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 B...
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Lobsien, Verena, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Transparency and Dissimulation : Configurations of Neoplatonism in Early Modern English Literature / Verena Lobsien. Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2010] ©2010 1 online resource (310 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Transformationen der Antike , 1864-5208 ; 16 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 restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. As part of a “new”, contextually aware, aesthetics, it seeks to determine some of the functions neoplatonic structures – such as forms of recursivity or certain modes of apophatic speech – are capable of fulfilling in combination and interaction with other, heterogeneous or even ideologically incompatible elements. What emerges is a surprisingly versatile poetics of excess and enigma, with strong Plotinian and Erigenist accents. This appears to need the traditional ingredients of petrarchism or courtliness only as material for the formation of new and dynamic wholes, revealing its radical metaphysical potential above all in the way it helps to resist the easy answers – in religion, science, or the fashions of libertine love. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Feb 2023) English literature Greek influences. English literature Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism. Neoplatonism in literature. Renaissance England. Antike /Rezeption. Englische Literatur. Frühe Neuzeit. Literarische Ästhetik. Neuplatonismus. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. bisacsh Early Modern Culture. Early Modern English Literature. Literary Aesthetics. Neoplatonism. Transformations of Antiquity. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1 9783110238570 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Theology and Religious Studies 2000-2014 (EN) 9783110238549 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Literary and Cultural Studies 2000 - 2014 9783110637854 ZDB-23-GLC Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2010 9783110233544 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK PACKAGE ENGLISH LANGUAGES TITLES 2010 9783110233551 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK PAKET ALTERTUM 2010 9783110233575 ZDB-23-DGD Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK PAKET MEDIÄVISTIK 2010-2012 9783110301168 print 9783110228847 https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110228854 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110228854 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110228854/original |
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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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