{"product_id":"plato-baptized-9781442614840","title":"Plato Baptized","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePlato Baptized\u003c\/em\u003e 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 the tradition of biblicized Platonism and Neoplatonism which informed Spenser’s habits of thinking.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first five chapters offer a diachronic thread through the maze of ancient texts, philosophical and biblical, which Spenser assimilated synchronically, and from which he drew the paradigms of image and language that represented for older readers evidences of his Christian humanist ‘faith.’ The later chapters explore Spenser’s ever-equivocal metaphoric language, through fi\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359424708951,"sku":"9781442614840","price":26.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781442614840.jpg?v=1754124607","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/plato-baptized-9781442614840","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}