Victoria Kahn

Gebundenes Buch

The Trouble with Literature

Beschreibung

This book argues that the literature of the English Reformation marks a turning point in Western thinking about literature and literariness. Victoria Kahn contrasts modern and early modern understandings of the terms, and focuses on the works of Thomas Hobbes, John Milton, Immanuel Kant, Søren Kierkegaard, and J.M. Coetzee.

Autor

Victoria Kahn is the Katherine Bixby Hotchkis Chair in English and Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Rhetoric, Prudence, and Skepticism in the Renaissance (Cornell University Press, 1985), Machiavellian Rhetoric: From the Counter-Reformation to Milton (Princeton University Press, 1994), Wayward Contracts: The Crisis of Political Obligation in England, 1640-1674 (Princeton University Press, 2004), and The Future of Illusion: Political Theology and Early Modern Texts (University of Chicago Press, 2014). She has edited Machiavelli and the Discourse of Literature (Cornell University Press, 1993), Rhetoric and Law in Early Modern Europe (Yale University Press, 2001), and Politics and the Passions (Princeton University Press, 2006).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 201mm x 132mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9780198808749
• ISBN-10: 0198808747
• Artikelnr.: 58306461