Light and death : figuration in Spenser, Kepler, Donne, Milton / Judith H. Anderson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anderson, Judith H., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English literature.

Death in literature.

Metaphor in literature.

Analogy in literature.

Allegory.

English literature--Early modern.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

vii, 316 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2017.

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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note:

Introduction: Issues of Death, Life, and Analogy

1. Body of Death: The Pauline Inheritance in Donne's Sermons, Spenser's Maleger, and Milton's Sin and Death

2. Mutability and Mortality in The Faerie Queene

3. Satanic Ethos: The Origin of Evil and Death and the Attainment of Individuality in Paradise Lost

4. Connecting the Cultural Dots: Classical, Medieval, Early Modern, and 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780823272778

082327277X

OCLC:

950449481