Logical Renaissance : Literature, Cognition, and Argument, 1479-1630 by Katrin Ettenhuber (2024, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-100198881185
ISBN-139780198881186
eBay Product ID (ePID)15060894317
Product Key Features
Number of Pages318 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameLogical Renaissance : Literature, Cognition, and Argument, 1479-1630
Publication Year2024
SubjectRenaissance, Drama, Poetry
TypeTextbook
AuthorKatrin Ettenhuber
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism
FormatHardcover
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Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight21.5 Oz
Item Length9.4 in
Item Width6.4 in
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Dewey Edition23
ReviewsThis strikingly original account of the role of logic in early modern England reconfigures our understanding not just of the intellectual and educational contexts that shaped literary production but of how thinking is put to work in the very fabric and form of treatises, poems, sermons and plays from Thomas Wilson and Edmund Spenser to Lancelot Andrewes, Donne, Shakespeare and early Milton. Paradigm-shifting and authoritative, it challenges and lucidly advances muchthat we thought we knew about rhetoric and the Renaissance. Every reader interested in the period will learn from this foundational study and delight in the brilliance of its ideas., "This close scholarly study is well researched and includes a reading list and a 22-page bibliography...Highly recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty." -- Choice, "This close scholarly study is well researched and includes a reading list and a 22-page bibliography...Highly recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty." -- Choice"The Logical Renaissance attempts to survey canonical literature of all forms in its relentless pursuit of logic's influence." -- Flynn Allott, Comitatus 55
Dewey Decimal820.9002
Table Of ContentPrefaceIntroduction1. A Brief History of Early Modern Logic2. Logic in Practice at Early Modern Cambridge: Young Milton3. Sex and the Disjunctive Syllogism: The Logic of Love in Donne's Poetry4. In Search of the Right Place: Sidney, Spenser, and the Dialectic of Invention5. Andrewes, Spenser, and Reforming the Arts of Discourse6. Truth Conditions: The Logic of Community in Early Modern ComedyConclusionIntroductory Reading List on LogicBibliographyIndex
SynopsisThis book charts for the first time the deep relationship between Renaissance literature and logic. Ettenhuber shows how the study of logic creatively inspired writers in the art of argument and reasoning, and offered frameworks for the discovery of literary material and advice on how to synthesise and present it., The Logical Renaissance: Literature, Cognition, and Argument, 1479-1630 is the first substantial account of early modern English literature's deep but uncharted relationship with logic. The nature and functions of logic have been largely misunderstood in literary criticism of the period, where it is often seen as sterile and formalistic: either an overcomplex remnant of Medieval philosophy superseded by rhetoric, or part of a Ramist pedagogy so stripped back that it had little to offer in the way of creative inspiration. Katrin Ettenhuber shows instead that early modern writers encountered in their study of logic a vibrantly practical art of argument and reasoning, which provided rich opportunities for imaginative engagement and artistic appropriation. The book opens with a clear and accessible introduction to the logical terms and concepts that will guide the discussion. It charts changes in logic education between the late fifteenth and early seventeenth centuries, before presenting a series of case studies that illustrate the creative applications of logic across a wide range of genres, including epic and lyric poetry, drama, and religious prose. The Logical Renaissance demonstrates, for the first time, logic's central role in the literary culture of early modern England., The Logical Renaissance: Literature, Cognition, and Argument, 1479-1630 is the first substantial account of early modern English literature's deep but uncharted relationship with logic. The nature and functions of logic have been largely misunderstood in literary criticism of the period, where it is often seen as sterile and formalistic: either an overcomplex remnant of Medieval philosophy superseded by rhetoric, or part of a Ramist pedagogy so stripped back that it had little to offer in the way of creative inspiration.Katrin Ettenhuber shows instead that early modern writers encountered in their study of logic a vibrantly practical art of argument and reasoning, which provided rich opportunities for imaginative engagement and artistic appropriation. The book opens with a clear and accessible introduction to the logical terms and concepts that will guide the discussion. It charts changes in logic education between the late fifteenth and early seventeenth centuries, before presenting a series of case studies that illustrate the creative applications of logic across a wide range of genres, including epic and lyric poetry, drama, and religious prose. The Logical Renaissance demonstrates, for the first time, logic's central role in the literary culture of early modern England.
LC Classification NumberPR418
