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Paradoxia epidemica : the Renaissance tradition of paradox / Rosalie L. Colie.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton Legacy LibraryPublisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2015]Copyright date: �1967Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781400878406
  • 1400878403
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 809.03 23
LOC classification:
  • PN721
Online resources:
Contents:
"The puny rhypographer" : Fran�cois Rabelais and his book -- "Pity the tale of me" : Logos and art's eternity -- John Donne and the paradoxes of incarnation -- Affirmations in the negative theology : the infinite -- Affirmations in the negative theology : eternity -- Logos in The temple -- "Nothing is but what is not" : solutions to the problem of nothing -- Le pari : all or nothing -- Still life : paradoxes of being -- Being and becoming : paradoxes in the language of things -- Being and becoming in The fairie queene -- "I am that I am" : problems of self-reference -- The rhetoric of transcendent knowledge -- Burton's Anatomy of melancholy and the structure of paradox -- "Reason in madness" -- "Mine own executioner."
Summary: 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. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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"The puny rhypographer" : Fran�cois Rabelais and his book -- "Pity the tale of me" : Logos and art's eternity -- John Donne and the paradoxes of incarnation -- Affirmations in the negative theology : the infinite -- Affirmations in the negative theology : eternity -- Logos in The temple -- "Nothing is but what is not" : solutions to the problem of nothing -- Le pari : all or nothing -- Still life : paradoxes of being -- Being and becoming : paradoxes in the language of things -- Being and becoming in The fairie queene -- "I am that I am" : problems of self-reference -- The rhetoric of transcendent knowledge -- Burton's Anatomy of melancholy and the structure of paradox -- "Reason in madness" -- "Mine own executioner."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 5, 2015).

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. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

In English.

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