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Paradoxia Epidemica : The Renaissance Tradition of Paradox /

Paradoxia Epidemica is a broad-ranging critical study of Renaissance thought, showing how the greatest writers of the period from Erasmus and Rabelais to Donne, Milton, and Shakespeare made conscious use of paradox not only as a figure of speech but as a mode of thought, a way of perceiving the univ...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Colie, Rosalie Littell (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "The puny rhypographer" : François Rabelais and his book
  • "Pity the tale of me" : Logos and art's eternity
  • John Donne and the paradoxes of incarnation
  • Affirmations in the negative theology : the infinite
  • Affirmations in the negative theology : eternity
  • Logos in The temple
  • "Nothing is but what is not" : solutions to the problem of nothing
  • Le pari : all or nothing
  • Still life : paradoxes of being
  • Being and becoming : paradoxes in the language of things
  • Being and becoming in The fairie queene
  • "I am that I am" : problems of self-reference
  • The rhetoric of transcendent knowledge
  • Burton's Anatomy of melancholy and the structure of paradox
  • "Reason in madness"
  • "Mine own executioner."