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Infinity, faith and time : Christian humanism and Renaissance literature / / John Spencer Hill



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Autore: Hill John Spencer <1943-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Infinity, faith and time : Christian humanism and Renaissance literature / / John Spencer Hill Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Montreal, : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: xiv, 200 p. ; ; 24 cm
Disciplina: 809.8/94/0903
Soggetto topico: European literature - Renaissance, 1450-1600 - History and criticism
Humanism in literature
Infinite in literature
Time in literature
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- Preface -- The Expanding Universe -- Fides Quærens Intellectum -- The Aristotelian Cosmos -- Nicholas of Cusa and the New Astronomy -- Rational Spirituality and Empirical Rationalism -- Chorismos and Methexis: Pascal, Traherne, Milton -- Time -- Chronos and Kairos -- Inner Time: Augustine and Bergson -- Time, Literature, and Literary Criticism -- Time in Shakespeare -- Heilsgeschischte: Typology and the Helix of History -- Notes Toward a Protestant Poetic -- Translations from Pascal’s Pensées -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: In Part 1 Hill examines the effect of the idea of spatial infinity on seventeenth-century literature, arguing that the metaphysical cosmology of Nicholas of Cusa provided Renaissance writers, such as Pascal, Traherne, and Milton, with a way to construe the vastness of space as the symbol of human spiritual potential. Focusing on time in Part 2, Hill reveals that, faced with the inexorability of time, Christian humanists turned to St Augustine to develop a philosophy that interpreted temporal passage as the necessary condition of experience without making it the essence or ultimate measure of human purpose. Hill's analysis centres on Shakespeare, whose experiments with the shapes of time comprise a gallery of heuristic time-centred fictions that attempt to explain the consequences of human existence in time. Infinity, Faith, and Time reveals that the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were a period during which individuals were able, with more success than in later times, to make room for new ideas without rejecting old beliefs.
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ISBN: 1-282-85471-2
9786612854712
0-7735-6681-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910825150403321
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Serie: McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion. : Series two.