“Speaking Pictures”: Ways of Seeing and Reading in English Renaissance Culture

Neither in Antiquity nor in the Middle Ages could literary theory settle the debate about the primacy of inspiration or imitation, Plato or Aristotle. It was in the Renaissance that serious efforts were made to reconcile the two theories, and one of the best syntheses came from England. Philosophica...

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Main Author: Szőnyi György E.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2018-03-01
Series:Studia Anglica Posnaniensia
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2478/stap-2018-0007