Eighteenth-century stoic poetics Shaftesbury, Akenside, and the discipline of the imagination
"Eighteenth-Century Stoic Poetics: Shaftesbury, Akenside, and the Discipline of the Imagination offers a fresh perspective on the eighteenth-century poetics of Lord Shaftesbury and Mark Akenside. This book traces the two authors' debt to Roman Stoic spiritual exercises and early modern con...
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| Format: | Abschlussarbeit Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston
Brill
[2023]
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| Schriftenreihe: | Brill's studies in intellectual history
volume 342 |
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Eighteenth-Century Stoic Poetics: Shaftesbury, Akenside, and the Discipline of the Imagination offers a fresh perspective on the eighteenth-century poetics of Lord Shaftesbury and Mark Akenside. This book traces the two authors' debt to Roman Stoic spiritual exercises and early modern conceptions of the care of the self, which informs their view of the poetic imagination as a bundle of techniques designed to manage impressions, cultivate right images in the mind and rectify judgement. Alexandra Bacalu traces the roots of this articulation in early modern writings on the imagination, as well as in Restoration and Augustan debates on wit, exploring the fruitful tension between ideas of imaginative enthusiasm and imaginative regulation that it provokes"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | VIII, 211 Seiten 25 cm |
| ISBN: | 9789004202832 |