Plato Baptized: Towards the Interpretation of Spenser's Mimetic Fictions

by Elizabeth Bieman

Book Overview

Plato Baptized 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802057675
• ISBN13: 9780802057679
• Release Date: November 1988
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 325 Pages
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher