Robert Lanier Reid

Renaissance psychologies

Spenser and Shakespeare

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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. -- .

Produktdetails

• The Manchester Spenser
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 696g
• ISBN-13: 9781526109170
• ISBN-10: 1526109174
• Artikelnr.: 46489268

Autorenporträt

Robert Lanier Reid is H. C. Stuart Professor Emeritus of English at Emory and Henry College

Inhaltsangabe

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 Index