Screen LibraryLight and death : figuration in Spenser, Kepler, Donne, Milton /
"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 processes of narrative, discovery, and interpretat...
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Fordham University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | [2017] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: |
"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 processes of narrative, discovery, and interpretation. Creativity, optics, rhetoric, and language are focal as well"-- |
| Carrier Form: | vii, 316 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780823272778 082327277X |
| Index Number: | PR428 |
| CLC: | I561.063 |
| Call Number: | I561.063/A547 |
| Contents: | Introduction: Issues of Death, Life, 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: The Origin of 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. |