Light 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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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2017.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
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- 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.