Plato Baptized
Plato Baptized 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 ...
Plato Baptized 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 ...
