Light and Death : Figuration in Spenser, Kepler, Donne, Milton / / Judith H. Anderson
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| Autore: |
Anderson Judith H.
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| Titolo: |
Light and Death : Figuration in Spenser, Kepler, Donne, Milton / / Judith H. Anderson
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, NY : , : Fordham University Press, , [2017] |
| ©2017 | |
| Edizione: | First edition. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (327 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 820.9/3548 |
| 820.93548 | |
| Soggetto topico: | SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects |
| LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance | |
| Allegory | |
| Analogy in literature | |
| Metaphor in literature | |
| Death in literature | |
| English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | Analogy |
| Death | |
| Donne | |
| Kepler | |
| Light | |
| Literature and science | |
| Milton | |
| Optics | |
| Spenser | |
| metaphor | |
| Classificazione: | LIT019000SCI075000 |
| Note generali: | Includes index. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Issues of Death, Light, and Analogy -- 1. “The Body of This Death”: Donne’s Sermons, Spenser’s Maleger, Milton’s Sin and Death -- 2. Mutability and Mortality in The Faerie Queene -- 3. Satanic Ethos: Evil, Death, and Individuality in Paradise Lost -- 4. Connecting the Cultural Dots: Classical to Modern Traditions of Analogy -- 5. Proportional Thinking in Kepler’s Science of Light -- 6. Analogy, Proportion, and Death in Donne’s Anniversaries -- 7. Milton’s Twilight Zone: Analogy, Light, and Darkness in Paradise Lost -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Light figures being; darkness, death. Bridging mathematical science, semantics, rhetoric, grammar, and major poems, Judith H. Anderson seeks to negotiate writings from multiple disciplines in the shared terms of poiesis and figuration rather than as cultural opposites. Analogy, a type of metaphor, has always been the connector of the known to the unknown, the sensible to the infinite. Anderson’s study moves from the figuration of light and death to the history of analogy and its pertinence to light in physics and metaphysics, from Kepler to Donne, Spenser, and Milton. Topics proliferate: creativity, optics, the relation of literature to science, the methodology of thought and argument, and the processes of narrative, discovery, and interpretation. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Light and Death |
| ISBN: | 0-8232-7282-6 |
| 0-8232-7280-X | |
| 0-8232-7281-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910154725703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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