Juan Luis Vives: The poetics of invention.
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Title
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Juan Luis Vives: The poetics of invention.
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Identifier
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AAI3169938
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identifier
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3169938
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Creator
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Kraus, George Frank.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Ottavio DiCamillo
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Date
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2005
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Literature, Romance | Philosophy | History, European
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Abstract
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The Poetics of Invention takes into account the relation of Vives' early work, Fabula de Homine, a highly metaphorical statement of Man's transcendental being, and two of his subsequent major works, De anima and De probabilitatis. These two major works build upon and extend Vives' metaphorical explanation of man's structure and his place in the world as set forth in the Fabula. The allegory established in the Fabula is the basis of Vives' subsequent anthropological, philosophical, psychological, theological and political discourse. In the Fabula, which is the focus of the Theater of Invention that comprises Part One of the dissertation, man, with Mercury as his guide, reveals his powers of invention to the appreciative gods who have assembled to celebrate Juno's birthday. The Fabula itself is Vives' description of a play written by Jupiter as a gift to Juno on her birthday. It is written so that man, the most powerful archmime and ethologue, by following Jupiter's script from which he cannot diverge, demonstrates the protean powers of invention that he has been granted by his father. This theater, although carefully scripted by Jupiter, allows man to express his freedom within the laws of nature by either taking on the shapes or by providing the gods with explanations of the creatures of other kingdoms during his transcendent path to the eternal banquet of the gods, the place of his beatitude. Part Two is a reading and explanation of the second book of De anima; it serves also as an examination of Vives' concept of man's nature and provides a description of the faculties of man that underlie his performance in the Theater of Invention. Part Three provides a close look at the Art of Invention, including the components and historical roots of its poetics, through an analysis of Vives' De probabilitatis. This examination of the structure and operation of organizing man's experience by way of reasoning "probabiliter" sheds light on the form of reasoning that is the basis of Vives' concept of dialectic, and is presaged by the activity of man as archmime and ethologue in the Fabula.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
