Michelle Zerba
Doubt and Skepticism in Antiquity and the Renaissance
Michelle Zerba
Doubt and Skepticism in Antiquity and the Renaissance
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An interdisciplinary study of the forms and uses of uncertainty in important works of literature and philosophy in antiquity and the Renaissance.
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An interdisciplinary study of the forms and uses of uncertainty in important works of literature and philosophy in antiquity and the Renaissance.
Produktdetails
- Produktdetails
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Seitenzahl: 272
- Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2013
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
- Gewicht: 598g
- ISBN-13: 9781107024656
- ISBN-10: 110702465X
- Artikelnr.: 35060141
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Seitenzahl: 272
- Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2013
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
- Gewicht: 598g
- ISBN-13: 9781107024656
- ISBN-10: 110702465X
- Artikelnr.: 35060141
Michelle Zerba is Associate Professor of English, Classics, and Comparative Literature at Louisiana State University. She is the author of Tragedy and Theory: The Problem of Conflict since Aristotle (1988) and numerous articles on literature, rhetoric and philosophy in antiquity and the Renaissance.
Introduction; Part I. 'Farewell the Tranquil Mind': Tragic Doubt in Homer's
Iliad, Sophocles' Philoctetes, and Shakespeare's Othello: 1. Achilles'
doubt and the construction of a heroism-at-one-remove in Homer's Iliad; 2.
Moral doubt and the contradictory claims of pity in Sophocles' Philoctetes;
3. 'Do as if for surety': doubt and delusions of certainty in Shakespeare's
Othello; Part II. Comic Skepticism and Polytropic Strategies in Homer's
Odyssey, Aristophanes' Women of the Thesmophoria, and Shakespeare's As You
Like It: 4. Wandering Odysseus, pyrrhonist Penelope, and the return from
alienation in Homer's Odyssey; 5. Parody, androgyny, and skeptical
inversions of gender and genre in Aristophanes' Women of the Thesmophoria
and Shakespeare's As You Like It; Part III. Skepticism, Politics, and
Rhetoric in the Works of Cicero, Machiavelli, and Montaigne: 6. Skeptical
constructions of identity in Roman and Renaissance humanism; 7. Academic
skepticism and Cicero's republican politics; 8. A Ciceronian Machiavelli;
9. Montaigne's pyrrhonist politics.
Iliad, Sophocles' Philoctetes, and Shakespeare's Othello: 1. Achilles'
doubt and the construction of a heroism-at-one-remove in Homer's Iliad; 2.
Moral doubt and the contradictory claims of pity in Sophocles' Philoctetes;
3. 'Do as if for surety': doubt and delusions of certainty in Shakespeare's
Othello; Part II. Comic Skepticism and Polytropic Strategies in Homer's
Odyssey, Aristophanes' Women of the Thesmophoria, and Shakespeare's As You
Like It: 4. Wandering Odysseus, pyrrhonist Penelope, and the return from
alienation in Homer's Odyssey; 5. Parody, androgyny, and skeptical
inversions of gender and genre in Aristophanes' Women of the Thesmophoria
and Shakespeare's As You Like It; Part III. Skepticism, Politics, and
Rhetoric in the Works of Cicero, Machiavelli, and Montaigne: 6. Skeptical
constructions of identity in Roman and Renaissance humanism; 7. Academic
skepticism and Cicero's republican politics; 8. A Ciceronian Machiavelli;
9. Montaigne's pyrrhonist politics.
Introduction; Part I. 'Farewell the Tranquil Mind': Tragic Doubt in Homer's
Iliad, Sophocles' Philoctetes, and Shakespeare's Othello: 1. Achilles'
doubt and the construction of a heroism-at-one-remove in Homer's Iliad; 2.
Moral doubt and the contradictory claims of pity in Sophocles' Philoctetes;
3. 'Do as if for surety': doubt and delusions of certainty in Shakespeare's
Othello; Part II. Comic Skepticism and Polytropic Strategies in Homer's
Odyssey, Aristophanes' Women of the Thesmophoria, and Shakespeare's As You
Like It: 4. Wandering Odysseus, pyrrhonist Penelope, and the return from
alienation in Homer's Odyssey; 5. Parody, androgyny, and skeptical
inversions of gender and genre in Aristophanes' Women of the Thesmophoria
and Shakespeare's As You Like It; Part III. Skepticism, Politics, and
Rhetoric in the Works of Cicero, Machiavelli, and Montaigne: 6. Skeptical
constructions of identity in Roman and Renaissance humanism; 7. Academic
skepticism and Cicero's republican politics; 8. A Ciceronian Machiavelli;
9. Montaigne's pyrrhonist politics.
Iliad, Sophocles' Philoctetes, and Shakespeare's Othello: 1. Achilles'
doubt and the construction of a heroism-at-one-remove in Homer's Iliad; 2.
Moral doubt and the contradictory claims of pity in Sophocles' Philoctetes;
3. 'Do as if for surety': doubt and delusions of certainty in Shakespeare's
Othello; Part II. Comic Skepticism and Polytropic Strategies in Homer's
Odyssey, Aristophanes' Women of the Thesmophoria, and Shakespeare's As You
Like It: 4. Wandering Odysseus, pyrrhonist Penelope, and the return from
alienation in Homer's Odyssey; 5. Parody, androgyny, and skeptical
inversions of gender and genre in Aristophanes' Women of the Thesmophoria
and Shakespeare's As You Like It; Part III. Skepticism, Politics, and
Rhetoric in the Works of Cicero, Machiavelli, and Montaigne: 6. Skeptical
constructions of identity in Roman and Renaissance humanism; 7. Academic
skepticism and Cicero's republican politics; 8. A Ciceronian Machiavelli;
9. Montaigne's pyrrhonist politics.