Sidney’s Arcadia and the conflicts of virtue

Sidney’s Arcadia and the conflicts of virtue PDF Author: Richard James Wood
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526136481
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Wood reads Philip Sidney's New Arcadia in the light of the ethos known as Philippism after the followers of the Protestant theologian, Philip Melanchthon. He uses a critical paradigm previously used to discuss Sidney's Defence of Poesy and narrows the gap often found between Sidney's theory and literary practice.

Sidney’s Arcadia and the conflicts of virtue

Sidney’s Arcadia and the conflicts of virtue PDF Author: Richard James Wood
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526136481
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Book Description
Wood reads Philip Sidney's New Arcadia in the light of the ethos known as Philippism after the followers of the Protestant theologian, Philip Melanchthon. He uses a critical paradigm previously used to discuss Sidney's Defence of Poesy and narrows the gap often found between Sidney's theory and literary practice.

The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia

The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia PDF Author: Philip Sidney
Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 526

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The Sound of Virtue

The Sound of Virtue PDF Author: Blair Worden
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300066937
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 444

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Blair Worden reconstructs the dramatic events amidst which the Arcadia was composed and shows for the first time how profound is their presence in it. The Queen's failure to resist the Catholic advance at home and abroad, and her apparent resolve to marry the Catholic heir to the French throne, seemed likely to bring tyranny and persecution to England.

Philip Sidney and the Poetics of Renaissance Cosmopolitanism

Philip Sidney and the Poetics of Renaissance Cosmopolitanism PDF Author: Robert E. Stillman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317081226
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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Celebrations of literary fictions as autonomous worlds appeared first in the Renaissance and were occasioned, paradoxically, by their power to remedy the ills of history. Robert E. Stillman explores this paradox in relation to Philip Sidney's Defence of Poesy, the first Renaissance text to argue for the preeminence of poetry as an autonomous form of knowledge in the public domain. Offering a fresh interpretation of Sidney's celebration of fiction-making, Stillman locates the origins of his poetics inside a neglected historical community: the intellectual elite associated with Philip Melanchthon (leader of the German Reformation after Luther), the so-called Philippists. As a challenge to traditional Anglo-centric scholarship, his study demonstrates how Sidney's education by Continental Philippists enabled him to dignify fiction-making as a compelling form of public discourse-compelling because of its promotion of powerful new concepts about reading and writing, its ecumenical piety, and its political ambition to secure through natural law (from universal 'Ideas') freedom from the tyranny of confessional warfare. Intellectually ambitious and wide-ranging, this study draws together various elements of contemporary scholarship in literary, religious, and political history in order to afford a broader understanding of the Defence and the cultural context inside which Sidney produced both his poetry and his poetics.

The Correspondence of Sir Philip Sidney and Hubert Languet

The Correspondence of Sir Philip Sidney and Hubert Languet PDF Author: Sir Philip Sidney
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Category : Courts and courtiers
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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Mediatrix

Mediatrix PDF Author: Julie Crawford
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198712618
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 273

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'Mediatrix' examines the roles women played as patrons, dedicatees and readers, as well writers, in the English Renaissance. The author also looks at the relationship between these literary activities and religious and political activism.

An Apologie for Poetrie

An Apologie for Poetrie PDF Author: Philip Sidney
Publisher:
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Brutus: Vindiciae, Contra Tyrannos

Brutus: Vindiciae, Contra Tyrannos PDF Author: Hubert Languet
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521349871
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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A complete translation and detailed edition of an influential treatise.

The Structures of Sidney's Arcadia

The Structures of Sidney's Arcadia PDF Author: Nancy Lindheim
Publisher:
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 238

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Arcadia

Arcadia PDF Author: Iain Pears
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1101946830
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 528

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From the author of the international best seller An Instance of the Fingerpost, Arcadia is an astonishing work of imagination. In Cold War England, Professor Henry Lytten, having renounced a career in espionage, is writing a fantasy novel that dares to imagine a world less fraught than his own. He finds an unlikely confidante in Rosie, an inquisitive young neighbor who, while chasing after Lytten's cat one day, stumbles through a doorway in his cellar and into a stunning and unfamiliar bucolic landscape—remarkably like the fantasy world Lytten is writing about. There she meets a young boy named Jay who is about to embark on a journey that will change both their lives. Elsewhere, in a distopian society where progress is controlled by a corrupt ruling elite, the brilliant scientist Angela Meerson has discovered the potential of a powerful new machine. When the authorities come knocking, she will make an important decision—one that will reverberate through all these different lives and worlds.