TY - BOOK ID - 492877 TI - Sleep, romance, and human embodiment : vitality from Spenser to Milton PY - 2012 SN - 9781107024410 9781139169257 9781316505335 1139169254 113953100X 9781139531009 9781139528726 1139528726 9781139526333 1139526332 1107024412 1139540327 9781139540322 1107236118 9781107236110 1283574802 9781283574808 1139527533 9781139527538 9786613887252 6613887250 1139532197 9781139532198 1316505332 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - English literature KW - Thematology KW - anno 1600-1699 KW - anno 1500-1599 KW - Human beings in literature. KW - Life in literature. KW - Philosophy in literature. KW - Sleep in literature. KW - Soul in literature. KW - Man in literature KW - History and criticism. KW - Aristotle KW - Aristoteles KW - Aristote KW - Arisṭāṭṭil KW - Aristo, KW - Aristotel KW - Aristotele KW - Aristóteles, KW - Aristòtil KW - Aristotile KW - Arisṭū KW - Arisṭūṭālīs KW - Arisutoteresu KW - Arystoteles KW - Ya-li-shih-to-te KW - Ya-li-ssu-to-te KW - Yalishiduode KW - Yalisiduode KW - Ἀριστοτέλης KW - Αριστοτέλης KW - Аристотел KW - ארסטו KW - אריםטו KW - אריסטו KW - אריסטוטלס KW - אריסטוטלוס KW - אריסטוטליס KW - أرسطاطاليس KW - أرسططاليس KW - أرسطو KW - أرسطوطالس KW - أرسطوطاليس KW - ابن رشد KW - اريسطو KW - Pseudo Aristotele KW - Pseudo-Aristotle KW - アリストテレス KW - Influence. KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Literature UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:492877 AB - 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. ER -