The Logical Renaissance: Literature, Cognition, and Argument, 1479-1630

ISBN-13: 9780198881186 / Twarda / 2024 / 288 str.

Fellow Dr Katrin (Fellow and Director of Studies in English

Recenzje

In this spectacular book, Katrin Ettenhuber meticulously reconstructs the place of logic within the structures through which the early moderns were taught to think and write. The subject is fascinating in its own right. But The Logical Renaissance finds in it a vantage from which to generate fresh interpretations of even the most familiar literary texts; moreover, it shows that to read early modern texts logically is to attend to the crucial significance of literature as the work of ethics. This is a bold, sophisticated, and critically sensitive study that will be required reading for all scholars of early modern literature and culture.

O autorze

Katrin Ettenhuber is the author of Donne's Augustine: Renaissance Cultures of Interpretation (OUP, 2011), editor of vol. 5 of The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne (OUP, 2015), and co-editor, with Sylvia Adamson and Gavin Alexander, of Renaissance Figures of Speech (CUP, 2007). She has published widely on early modern literature, theology, rhetoric, and logic.