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Shakespeare, Alchemy and the Creative Imagination:The Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint '14
Healy, Margaret Dr
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発行年月 |
2014年07月 |
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出版国 |
アメリカ合衆国 |
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言語 |
英語 |
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媒体 |
冊子 |
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装丁 |
paper |
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ページ数/巻数 |
272 p., 9 b/w illus. |
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ジャンル |
洋書/人文科学/文学/イギリス文学 |
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ISBN |
9781107637740 |
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商品コード |
1015309039 |
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本の性格 |
学術書 |
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新刊案内掲載月 |
2014年07月 |
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商品URL
| https://kw.maruzen.co.jp/ims/itemDetail.html?itmCd=1015309039 |
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内容
Shakespeare's sonnets and A Lover's Complaint constitute a rich tapestry of rhetorical play about Renaissance love in all its guises. A significant strand of this spiritual alchemy is working the 'metal' of the mind through meditation on love, memory work and intense imagination. Healy demonstrates how this process of anguished soul work - construed as essential to inspired poetic making - is woven into these poems, accounting for their most enigmatic imagery and urgency of tone. The esoteric philosophy of late Renaissance Neoplatonic alchemy, which embraced bawdy sexual symbolism and was highly fashionable in European intellectual circles, facilitated Shakespeare's poetry. Arguing that Shakespeare's incorporation of alchemical textures throughout his late works is indicative of an artistic stance promoting religious toleration and unity, this book sets out a crucial new framework for interpreting the 1609 poems and transforms our understanding of Shakespeare's art.