Judith H. Anderson

Light and Death

Figuration in Spenser, Kepler, Donne, Milton

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Death, light, figuration and, especially, analogical expressions of figuration, are the primary subjects of this book. They generate associated interests: the relation of literature and science, the methodology of thought and argument, and the processesof narrative, discovery, and interpretation. Creativity, optics, rhetoric, and language are focal as well"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 662g
• ISBN-13: 9780823272778
• ISBN-10: 082327277X
• Artikelnr.: 45101813

Autorenporträt

Judith H. Anderson is Chancellor¿s Professor of English Emeritus at Indiana University. Her books include Words That Matter: Linguistic Perception in Renaissance English; Translating Investments: Metaphor and the Dynamic of Cultural Change in Tudor-Stuart England (Fordham); and Reading the Allegorical Intertext: Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton (Fordham).

Inhaltsangabe

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