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Renaissance Psychologies : Spenser and Shakespeare.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (367 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781526109194
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Renaissance PsychologiesDDC classification:
  • 821/.3
LOC classification:
  • PR2248 .R453 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Renaissance psychologies -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I: Anatomy of human nature -- 1 The charismatic queen and the centrality of self-love -- 2 Depicting passion -- 3 Depicting intellect: 'Experience, though noon auctoritee' -- 4 Depicting soul and spirit: Spenser and Shakespeare -- Part II: Holistic design -- 5 Hierarchic architecture in The Faerie Queene -- 6 Shakespeare's plays as passional cycles: revealing the unconscious in chiastic symmetry -- 7 End-songs: final vistas of Spenser and Shakespeare -- Epilogue -- General index -- Index of themes and symbols.
Summary: Spenser and Shakespeare both wrote with epic scope, a comprehensive view of human nature, but their characters and plots sprung from radically distinct psychologies. Renaissance psychologies explores this polarity, questioning the very distinct concepts of these two great poets and how they are related.
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Cover -- Renaissance psychologies -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I: Anatomy of human nature -- 1 The charismatic queen and the centrality of self-love -- 2 Depicting passion -- 3 Depicting intellect: 'Experience, though noon auctoritee' -- 4 Depicting soul and spirit: Spenser and Shakespeare -- Part II: Holistic design -- 5 Hierarchic architecture in The Faerie Queene -- 6 Shakespeare's plays as passional cycles: revealing the unconscious in chiastic symmetry -- 7 End-songs: final vistas of Spenser and Shakespeare -- Epilogue -- General index -- Index of themes and symbols.

Spenser and Shakespeare both wrote with epic scope, a comprehensive view of human nature, but their characters and plots sprung from radically distinct psychologies. Renaissance psychologies explores this polarity, questioning the very distinct concepts of these two great poets and how they are related.

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