Paradoxia Epidemica The Renaissance Tradition of Paradox |
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| Author:
| Colie, Rosalie Littell |
| Series title: | Princeton Legacy Library |
| ISBN: | 978-0-691-65048-7 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2016 |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $350.00 |
Book Description:
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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
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