Paradoxia Epidemica: The Renaissance Tradition of Paradox

by Rosalie Littell Colie

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691623864
• ISBN13: 9780691623863
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 574 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.0" x 8.0"