The View from Minerva's Tower: Learning and Imagination in 'The Anatomy of Melancholy'.

Language: English

Published by Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press, 1989

0802026850 / 9780802026859

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X, 250 p. Ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar ohne Anstreichungen / A good and clean copy without markings. - Contents Preface I Introduction / 1 Playing Labour: The Melancholy Physician Considers the Natural World / 1 'Mere Unconcerning Things, Matters of Fact': Physics, Zoology, Astronomy / 2 Travelling in Map and Card: Geography / 3 Barbarous Realms and Plato's Kingdom: Anthropology / 4 Repairing Nature: Physic / 5 Nature's Secrets: Magic and Astrology / 2 Melancholy and the Order of Grace / 1 Tempests of Contention and the Serenity of Charity: Reason, Belief, and Religion / 2 Melancholy: The Fall of Man / 3 The Apothecary's Shop: The Bible in The Anatomy / 4 Applied Divinity: The Anatomy as Priestly Counsel / i The Question of Genre: The Agenda of The Anatomy of Melancholy / ii The Style of Spoken Discourse / iii The Anatomy as a Sermon / iv The Great Exemplum / 3 Art: Studia Humaniora / 1 Introduction: Facts and Fictions / 2 Speculum and Spectacle: History / 3 Deuteroscopic Discourse: Myth and Poetry / 4 Poetic Forms / 5 Art and Architecture / Conclusion The Rhetorical Deployment of Learning in The Anatomy of Melancholy / Appendix 1 Burton's Geographical Authorities / Appendix 2 The Literature on China Available to Burton and Browne / Appendix 3 Direct Quotations from the Bible in The Anatomy of Melancholy / Appendix 4 Astrological Signs in the Frontispiece of The Anatomy and in the Synopses. ISBN 9780802026859 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 552. …

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The View from Minerva's Tower: Learning and Imagination in 'The Anatomy of Melancholy'.
Author
Vicari, E. Patricia:
Publisher
Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press
Publication year
1989
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Gut
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Hardcover with dust jacket.
Language
English
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0802026850
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9780802026859
Item weight
552 grams
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