Philip Sidney critical quotes Flashcards
1
Q
What are the key features Madeleine Merton identifies in SIdney?
A
‘Moral struggle, indecision, and the treachery inherent in the self and the world’
2
Q
What does Madeline Merton say Sidney has?
A
‘didactic aspirations’
3
Q
What does Maria Prendergast say of Astrophil and Stella;s speaker?
A
‘solipsistic space’ speaker drifts into paradoxically means he loses ‘any coherent, unified conception of self’ – impossibility of individual autonomous self-creation
4
Q
What does Maria Prendergast say Astrophil and Stella ultimately becomes?
A
Ultimately an ‘apology for originality’
