Tragedy as Philosophy in the Reformation World

ISBN-13: 9780198834212 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 320 str.

Russ Leo

Opis

Russ Leo examines how Reformation poets, theologians, and humanist critics turned to tragedy to understand providence and agencies human and divine. He explores the ways in which influential early modern poets and critics argued that tragedy was distinct from performance, and uniquely suited to philosophical reflection.

Recenzje

Leo's TPRW offers a selection of insightful analyses that could interest a range of scholars in different fields, including reception history of the Bible and of Aristotle, historical theology, history of philosophy, history of the Protestant Reformation, literary criticism, and hermeneutics, and it may even help a tragedian or two. There is so much of value here. Philip Thomas Mohr, Ad Fontes

O autorze

Russ Leo is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at Princeton University. After receiving his PhD from the Program in Literature at Duke University he held a Perkins-Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Society of Fellows at Princeton University. His articles have appeared in such academic journals as SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, Comparative Literature, Milton Studies, and the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies as well as in edited collections such as The Oxford Handbook of the Early Modern Bible (edited by Kevin Kileen, Helen Smith, and Rachel Willie; OUP, 2015) and The Young Spinoza (edited by Yitzhak Y. Melamed; OUP, 2015). He is an editor (with Katrin Röder and Freya Sierhuis) of The Measure of the Mind: Fulke Greville and the Literary Culture of the English Renaissance (OUP, forthcoming).