Transparency and dissimulation : configurations of Neoplatonism in early modern English literature / Verena Olejniczak Lobsien.
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, Aphr...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; New York :
De Gruyter,
©2010.
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| Series: | Transformationen der Antike ;
Bd. 16. |
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 310 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 3110228858 9783110228854 311022884X 9783110228847 |
| ISSN: | 1864-5208 ; |
| Language: | In English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Print version record. |