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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]
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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