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Transparency and dissimulation : configurations of Neoplatonism in early modern English literature /
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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Berlin ; New York :
De Gruyter,
©2010.
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| Colección: | Transformationen der Antike ;
Bd. 16. |
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- Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: "Good Works" and "Fine Things " Neoplatonic Configurations in Seventeenth-Century English Literature and Culture
- Enigma and Excess
- Edward Herbert's Wax-Candle
- 2. Circularities or the Poetics of Return
- 2.1. Squaring the Circle: Neoplatonic Versions of the Self Ficino to Donne
- Neoplatonic Circles of the Self: Ficino to Castiglione
- Sidney: The Melancholy Lover as Poet
- Wyatt: Refiguring Repentance
- Spenser: Retractation as Transparency
- Donne: The Translators Translated
- 2.2. Recursivity and Perfection: Marvell's "On a Drop of Dew"
- Images of the Soul
- Neoplatonic Perfection
- The Epistrophe of a Drop of Dew
- Platonists and Perfectionists
- Exodus, or Perfect Imperfection
- 3. Knowledge and Happiness
- 3.1."Uncertaine knowledge" Or: How to Make Sense of an Intransparent World
- In the Labyrinth of Truth: Thomas Browne.
- Note continued: The Dynamics of Assimilation in Religio Medici
- Paradox in Urne-Buriall
- The Garden of Cyrus and Paralepsis
- 3.2. Transcendent Opacity: Edenic Imaginations of Happiness in Marvell's "Garden"
- The Gardener's Delight, or: All in One
- 3.3. Felicity: Thomas Traherne's Art of Life
- A Philosopher's Idea of Happiness: Plotinian eudaimonia
- Eudaimonia and Enjoyment Transformed into "Felicity"
- Happy with Body and Soul
- 4. Transparent Spheres, or the Beauty of Creation
- The Natural World as Subject of Neoplatonic Aesthetics
- 4.1. The Pleasures of the Pensive Eye: Henry Vaughan's Poetry
- Vaughan and the Recalcitrance of Nature
- Seeds of Eternity?
- 4.2. Transparent Spheres: A Neoplatonic Aesthetics of Creation
- Cherubinic Writing on Both Sides of the Veil
- Shadows in the Water, or: Like a Face Seen in Many Mirrors
- 5. Transparent Duplicities
- 5.1. Dissimulating Dogma in Andrew Marvell's Writings.
- Note continued: The Resistance of Opposed Minds
- Andrew Marvell and Dissimulation
- "An Horatian Ode" and "The First Anniversary": Dissimulating Religious Authority
- "On a Drop of Dew"
- Dissimulating Neoplatonic Metaphysics or Biblical Piety?
- 5.2. The Poetics of Glorious Ruin: Aphra Behn
- A New Neoplatonism?
- Truth Stranger than Fiction: Aphra Behn's Stories
- Transcendent Love? A Poetic Farewell to Neoplatonism.