The Mistress-Knowledge: Literary Architectonics in the English Renaissance

Author / Editor
Doherty, Mary Jane Margaret.

Title
The Mistress-Knowledge: Literary Architectonics in the English Renaissance

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 39 (1978): 1539A.

Description
Equates "mistress-knowledge" of Sir Philip Sidney's "Defence of Poesy" with the "concept of an architectonic . . . usually related to self-knowledge as an ideal," traces the concept from classical to Renaissance treatments, and applies the critical notion to poems by Sidney, Spenser, Milton, and Chaucer (HF)

Chaucer Subjects
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