Light and Death

Informationen zum Autor Judith H. Anderson is Chancellor's Professor of English Emeritus at Indiana University. Her books include Words That Matter: Linguistic Perception in Renaissance English ; Translating Investments: Metaphor and the Dynamic of Cultural Change in Tudor-Stuart England (Fordham); and Reading the Allegorical Intertext: Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton (Fordham). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Issues of Death, Light, 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: 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 Acknowledgments Notes Index

Autorentext

Judith H. Anderson is Chancellor s Professor of English Emeritus at Indiana University. Her books include Words That Matter: Linguistic Perception in Renaissance English; Translating Investments: Metaphor and the Dynamic of Cultural Change in Tudor-Stuart England (Fordham); and Reading the Allegorical Intertext: Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton (Fordham).

Klappentext

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.

Inhalt

Introduction: Issues of Death, Light, 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: 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
   Acknowledgments
   Notes
   Index