Katrin Ettenhuber

The Logical Renaissance

Literature, Cognition, and Argument, 1479-1630

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book charts for the first time the deep relationship between Renaissance literature and logic. Ettenhuber shows how the study of logic creatively inspired writers in the art of argument and reasoning, and offered frameworks for the discovery of literary material and advice on how to synthesise and present it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 162mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780198881186
• ISBN-10: 0198881185
• Artikelnr.: 68503761

Autorenporträt

Katrin Ettenhuber is the author of Donne's Augustine: Renaissance Cultures of Interpretation (OUP, 2011), editor of vol. 5 of The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne (OUP, 2015), and co-editor, with Sylvia Adamson and Gavin Alexander, of Renaissance Figures of Speech (CUP, 2007). She has published widely on early modern literature, theology, rhetoric, and logic.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Introduction
* 1: A Brief History of Early Modern Logic
* 2: Logic in Practice at Early Modern Cambridge: Young Milton
* 3: Sex and the Disjunctive Syllogism: The Logic of Love in Donne's
Poetry
* 4: In Search of the Right Place: Sidney, Spenser, and the Dialectic
of Invention
* 5: Andrewes, Spenser, and Reforming the Arts of Discourse
* 6: Truth Conditions: The Logic of Community in Early Modern Comedy
* Conclusion
* Introductory Reading List on Logic
* Bibliography
* Index