Paradoxia epidemica: the renaissance tradition of paradox
Auteur :
Colie, Rosalie Littell
Éditeur :
Princeton University Press
ISBN :
9780691623863
Date de publication :
8 déc. 2015
Dimensions :
20,3 x 12,7 cm
Poids :
562 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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 universe, God, nature, and man himself. The book consi