Colie Paradoxia Epidemica

The Renaissance Tradition of Paradox
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-4008-7840-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 574 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

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 consists of an introduction (historical and topological) and sixteen chapters grouped according to broad types of paradox: rhetorical, theological, ontological, epistemological. Within this framework the author interprets individual writings or art forms as parts of a rich tradition.

Originally published in 1966.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Colie, Rosalie Littell

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter, pg. i
Preface, pg. vii
Contents, pg. xix
Introduction: Problems of Paradoxes, pg. 1
1. “The Puny Rhypographer”: François Rabelais and His Book, pg. 43
2. “Pity the Tale of Me”: Logos and Art’s Eternity, pg. 72
3. John Donne and the Paradoxes of Incarnation, pg. 96
4. Affirmations in the Negative Theology: the Infinite, pg. 145
5. Affirmations in the Negative Theology: Eternity, pg. 169
6. Logos in The Temple, pg. 190
7. “Nothing is but what is not”: Solutions to the Problem of Nothing, pg. 219
8. Le pari: All or Nothing, pg. 252
9. Still Life: Paradoxes of Being, pg. 273
10. Being and Becoming: Paradoxes in the Language of Things, pg. 300
11. Being and Becoming in The Faerie Queene, pg. 329
12. “I am that I am”: Problems of Self-Reference, pg. 355
13. The Rhetoric of Transcendent Know ledge, pg. 396
14. Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy and the Structure of Paradox, pg. 430
15. “Reason in Madness”, pg. 461
16. “Mine own Executioner”, pg. 482
Epilogue, pg. 508
Bibliography, pg. 521
Index, pg. 543