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Theologies of language in English renaissance literature : reading Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton /

Redescribing renaissance literature as a battleground of competing "theologies of language," Baumlin reads Shakespeare's Hamlet, Donne's Songs and Sonets, and Milton's "Lycidas" within a revisionist history of rhetoric: these works, Baumlin argues, mark stages in t...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Baumlin, James S.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : Lexington Books, ©2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Redescribing renaissance literature as a battleground of competing "theologies of language," Baumlin reads Shakespeare's Hamlet, Donne's Songs and Sonets, and Milton's "Lycidas" within a revisionist history of rhetoric: these works, Baumlin argues, mark stages in the Weberian Entzauberung or "disenchantment" of literature, as they move from the word-magic of medieval Catholicism to a puritan-reformed "rhetoric of.
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:0739169602
9780739169605
9781282134003
1282134000
9780739169612
0739169610