Unknowing Fanaticism : Reformation Literatures of Self-Annihilation /

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We may think we know what defines religious fanaticism: violent action undertaken with dogmatic certainty. But the term fanatic, from the European Reformation to today, has never been a stable one. Then and now it has been reductively defined to justify state violence and to delegitimize alternative...

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Autor principal: Lerner, Ross (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2019]
Temas:
European literature > Renaissance, 1450-1600 > History and criticism.
Fanaticism in literature.
Politics and literature.
Reformation > Europe.
Renaissance.
Literary Studies.
Religion.
Renaissance Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance.
Donne.
Fanaticism.
Hobbes.
Milton.
Spenser.
new formalism.
poetics.
political theology.
religion.
terrorism.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction Receiving Divine Action: Fanaticism and Form in the Reformation
  • 1. Allegorical Fanaticism: Spenser's Organs
  • 2. Lyric Fanaticism: Donne's Annihilation
  • 3. Readerly Fanaticism: Hobbes's Outworks
  • 4. Tragic Fanaticism: Milton's Motions
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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