Paradoxia epidemica : the renaissance tradition of paradox / Rosalie L. Colie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Colie, Rosalie Littell, author.

Series:

Princeton legacy library.

Princeton Legacy Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paradox.

Literature, Modern--15th and 16th centuries--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (574 p.)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1966.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Paradoxia Epidemica is a broad-ranging critical study of Renaissance thought, showing how the greatest writers of the period from Erasmus and Rabelais to Donne, Milton, and Shakespeare made conscious use of paradox not only as a figure of speech but as a mode of thought, a way of perceiving the universe, God, nature, and man himself. The book consists of an introduction (historical and topological) and sixteen chapters grouped according to broad types of paradox: rhetorical, theological, ontological, epistemological. Within this framework the author interprets individual writings or art forms as parts of a rich tradition.Originally published in 1966.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

Introduction: Problems of Paradoxes

Part I. Rhetorical and Psychological Paradoxes

1. "The Puny Rhypographer": François Rabelais and His Book

2. "Pity the Tale of Me": Logos and Art's Eternity

3. John Donne and the Paradoxes of Incarnation

Part II. Paradoxes in Divine Ontology

4. Affirmations in the Negative Theology: the Infinite

5. Affirmations in the Negative Theology: Eternity

6. Logos in The Temple

Part III. Ontological Paradoxes: Being and Becoming

7. "Nothing is but what is not": Solutions to the Problem of Nothing

8. Le pari: All or Nothing

9. Still Life: Paradoxes of Being

10. Being and Becoming: Paradoxes in the Language of Things

11. Being and Becoming in The Faerie Queene

Part IV. Epistemological Paradoxes

12. "I am that I am": Problems of Self-Reference

13. The Rhetoric of Transcendent Know ledge

14. Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy and the Structure of Paradox

15. "Reason in Madness"

16. "Mine own Executioner"

Epilogue

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-691-65048-9

1-4008-7840-3

OCLC:

967562717