Possible knowledge : the literary forms of early modern science /

The Renaissance, scholars have long argued, was a period beset by the loss of philosophical certainty. In Possible Knowledge, Debapriya Sarkar argues for the pivotal role of literature--what early moderns termed poesie--in the dynamic intellectual culture of this era of profound incertitude. Reveali...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Sarkar, Debapriya (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2023]
Subjects:
1500-1700
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Knowledge, Theory of, in literature.
Literature and science > England > History.
Knowledge, Theory of > England > History.
Imagination in literature.
Literary form > History.
Science in literature.
Théorie de la connaissance dans la littérature.
Littérature et sciences > Angleterre > Histoire.
Théorie de la connaissance > Angleterre > Histoire.
Genres littéraires > Histoire.
Sciences dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance.
English literature > Early modern
Imagination in literature
Knowledge, Theory of
Knowledge, Theory of, in literature
Literary form
Literature and science
Science in literature
England
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Literary criticism
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Edmund Spenser's Speculative Method
  • Chapter 2. William Shakespeare's Prophetic Recipes
  • Chapter 3. Francis Bacon's "Endlesse Worke"
  • Chapter 4. Margaret Cavendish's Physical Poetics
  • Chapter 5. John Milton's Evental Poetics
  • Coda. The Ethics of Poiesis
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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