At Zero Point : Discourse, Culture, and Satire in Restoration England /

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At Zero Point presents an entirely new way of looking at Restoration culture, discourse, and satire. The book locates a rupture in English culture and epistemology not at the end of the eighteenth century (when it occurred in France) but at the end of the seventeenth century. Rose Zimbardo's hy...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Zimbardo, Rose A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Semiotics and literature.
Satire, English.
Language and culture.
English literature > Early modern.
Discourse analysis, Literary.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
HUMOR > General.
literary criticism.
Semiotique et litterature > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siecle.
Langage et culture > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siecle.
Discours litteraire.
Semiotics and literature > England > History > 17th century.
Satire, English > History and criticism.
Language and culture > England > History > 17th century.
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Great Britain.
England.
Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 1660-1688 (Restauration)
Great Britain > History > Restoration, 1660-1688.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:At Zero Point presents an entirely new way of looking at Restoration culture, discourse, and satire. The book locates a rupture in English culture and epistemology not at the end of the eighteenth century (when it occurred in France) but at the end of the seventeenth century. Rose Zimbardo's hypothesis is based on Hans Blumenberg's concept of ""zero point""--The moment when an epistemology collapses under the weight of questions it has itself raised and simultaneously a new epistemology begins to construct itself. Zimbardo demonstrates that the Restoration marked both the collapse of the Re.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (208 pages).
ISBN:9780813158587

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