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Paradoxia Epidemica: The Renaissance Tradition of Paradox
(Hardback)
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Publishing Details
Full Title:
Paradoxia Epidemica: The Renaissance Tradition of Paradox
Contributors:
By (Author) Rosalie Littell Colie
Series:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Imprint:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
28th June 2016
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Other Subjects:
Literary theory
Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology
Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge
Dewey:
809.03
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Hardback
Number of Pages:
574
Dimensions:
Width 127mm, Height 203mm
Weight:
680g
Description
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
