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  1. Sleep, romance, and human embodiment
    vitality from Spenser to Milton
    Author: Sullivan, Garrett A.
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [u.a.]

    "Garrett Sullivan explores the changing impact of Aristotelian conceptions of vitality and humanness on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature before and after the rise of Descartes. In the Renaissance, Aristotle's tripartite soul is usually... more

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    "Garrett Sullivan explores the changing impact of Aristotelian conceptions of vitality and humanness on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature before and after the rise of Descartes. In the Renaissance, Aristotle's tripartite soul is usually considered in relation to concepts of psychology and physiology. However, Sullivan argues that its significance is much greater, constituting a theory of vitality that simultaneously distinguishes man from, and connects him to, other forms of life. He contends that, in works such as Sidney's Old Arcadia, Shakespeare's Henry IV and Henry V, Spenser's Faerie Queene, Milton's Paradise Lost and Dryden's All for Love, the genres of epic and romance, whose operations are informed by Aristotle's theory, provide the raw materials for exploring different models of humanness; and that sleep is the vehicle for such exploration as it blurs distinctions among man, plant and animal"--

     
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781107024410; 1107024412
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    9781107024410
    RVK Categories: HG 431 ; HI 1161 ; HK 1091
    Edition: 1. publ.
    Subjects: Philosophy in literature; Life in literature; Human beings in literature; Sleep in literature; Soul in literature; English literature
    Other subjects: Aristotle; Array; Array; Philosophy in literature; Life in literature; Human beings in literature; Sleep in literature; Soul in literature
    Scope: IX, 206 S., 23 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Machine generated contents note: Introduction; Part I. Aristotelian Vitality Ascendant: 1. 'Both plant and beast together': temperance, vitality and the romance alternative in Spenser's Bower of Bliss; 2. Sleeping minds: romance, affect and environment in Sidney's The Old Arcadia; 3. Sleep, history and 'life indeed' in Shakespeare's 1 and 2 Henry IV and Henry V; Part II. Aristotelian Vitality Embattled: 4. 'From the root springs lighter the green stalk': vegetality and humanness in Milton's Paradise Lost; Part III. Aristotelian Vitality Undead: 5. 'Desperate sloth, miscalled philosophy': Descartes and the post-Aristotelian romance episode in Dryden's All for Love; Coda: beyond undeath.

    Machine generated contents note: Introduction; Part I. Aristotelian Vitality Ascendant: 1. 'Both plant and beast together': temperance, vitality and the romance alternative in Spenser's Bower of Bliss; 2. Sleeping minds: romance, affect and environment in Sidney's The Old Arcadia; 3. Sleep, history and 'life indeed' in Shakespeare's 1 and 2 Henry IV and Henry V; Part II. Aristotelian Vitality Embattled: 4. 'From the root springs lighter the green stalk': vegetality and humanness in Milton's Paradise Lost; Part III. Aristotelian Vitality Undead: 5. 'Desperate sloth, miscalled philosophy': Descartes and the post-Aristotelian romance episode in Dryden's All for Love; Coda: beyond undeath.
  2. Sleep, romance and human embodiment
    vitality from Spenser to Milton
    Author: Sullivan, Garrett A.
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

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    TU Darmstadt, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek - Stadtmitte
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    Universität Gießen, Fachbibliothek Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften / Bibliothek im Historischen Institut
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781316505335; 9781107024410
    RVK Categories: HI 1161
    Edition: First paperback edition
    Scope: ix, 206 Seiten
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    Originally published 2012

    Includes bibliographical references and index
  3. Sleep, romance and human embodiment
    vitality from Spenser to Milton
    Author: Sullivan, Garrett A.
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

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    Württembergische Landesbibliothek
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    66/10748
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781316505335; 9781107024410
    Edition: 1. paperback edition
    Subjects: Englisch; Literatur; Aristotelismus; Rezeption; Geschichte 1500-1700; ; Spenser, Edmund; Sidney, Philip; Shakespeare, William; Shakespeare, William; Milton, John; Dryden, John;
    Scope: IX, 206 Seiten, 23 cm