The Landscape of the Mind: Pastoralism and Platonic Theory in Tasso's Aminta and Shakespeare's Early Comedies |
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... Platonic , and self- consciously aesthetic - in a word , pastoral . Once the poetic identity of Platonism and pastoralism as in the Aminta is recognized , then the possibility arises that Shakespeare's so - called romantic comedies are ...
... Platonic , and self- consciously aesthetic - in a word , pastoral . Once the poetic identity of Platonism and pastoralism as in the Aminta is recognized , then the possibility arises that Shakespeare's so - called romantic comedies are ...
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... Platonic tradition . If Platonism is indeed the informing philosophy of pastoral literature from its Greek origins to the Renaissance and after , then does this not explain the special acceptability of an apparently foolish fiction to ...
... Platonic tradition . If Platonism is indeed the informing philosophy of pastoral literature from its Greek origins to the Renaissance and after , then does this not explain the special acceptability of an apparently foolish fiction to ...
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... Platonic Renaissance— and to mention that no more specifically literary studies of aesthetic Platonic tradition in England seem to exist . I do not mean surveys or monographs on what the Elizabethans knew about Platonism and mythology ...
... Platonic Renaissance— and to mention that no more specifically literary studies of aesthetic Platonic tradition in England seem to exist . I do not mean surveys or monographs on what the Elizabethans knew about Platonism and mythology ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION Pastoralism and Aesthetic Platonic Tradition I | 1 |
THE PASTORALISM OF TASSOS AMINTA | 21 |
The Shepherds Life | 44 |
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