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<P><EM>Plato Baptized</EM> 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 perceptive readings of Spenser and his literary forebears as instances of ‘participatory mimesis' – a process Elizabeth Bieman identifies as central in the tradition of biblicized Platonism and Neoplatonism which informed Spenser’s habits of thinking.</P> <P>The first five chapters offer a diachronic thread through the maze of ancient texts, philosophical and biblical, which Spenser assimilated synchronically, and from which he drew the paradigms of image and language that represented for older readers evidences of his Christian humanist ‘faith.’ The later chapters explore Spenser’s ever-equivocal metaphoric language, through fictions that represent all levels of the human souk, cross-connecting and unifying the world of intertextualized living. </P> <P>The book’s thread offers occasional egress from maze and void. Tracing the evidences of questioning and doubt now fully familia

Author

Elizabeth Bieman

Publisher

University of Toronto Press

Published

1988

Language

EN

ISBN

9781442614840