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The seeds of things : theorizing sexuality and materiality in Renaissance representations /
The title of this book translates one of the many ways in which Lucretius names the basic matter from which the world is made in De rerum natura. In Lucretius, and in the strain of thought followed in this study, matter is always in motion, always differing from itself and yet always also made of th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2009.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The title of this book translates one of the many ways in which Lucretius names the basic matter from which the world is made in De rerum natura. In Lucretius, and in the strain of thought followed in this study, matter is always in motion, always differing from itself and yet always also made of the same stuff. From the pious Lucy Hutchinson's all but complete translation of the Roman epic poem to Margaret Cavendish's repudiation of atomism (but not of its fundamental problematic of sameness and difference), a central concern of this book ishow a thoroughgoing materialism can be read alongsid. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 267 pages, 4 pages of plates) : color illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780823235827 0823235823 9780823246939 0823246930 1282699083 9781282699083 9780823230686 0823230686 9780823238613 082323861X 9786612699085 6612699086 |