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Sleep, Romance and Human Embodiment - Vitality from Spenser to Milton (Hardcover, New)
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Sleep, Romance and Human Embodiment - Vitality from Spenser to Milton (Hardcover, New)
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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. 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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