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Book SynopsisParadoxia Epidemica is a broad-ranging critical study of Renaissance thought, showing how the greatest writers of the period from Erasmus and Rabelais to Donne, Milton, and Shakespeare made conscious use of paradox not only as a figure of speech but as a mode of thought, a way of perceiving the universe, God, nature, and man himself. The book consi
Table of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Preface, pg. vii*Contents, pg. xix*Introduction: Problems of Paradoxes, pg. 1*1. "The Puny Rhypographer": Francois Rabelais and His Book, pg. 43*2. "Pity the Tale of Me": Logos and Art's Eternity, pg. 72*3. John Donne and the Paradoxes of Incarnation, pg. 96*4. Affirmations in the Negative Theology: the Infinite, pg. 145*5. Affirmations in the Negative Theology: Eternity, pg. 169*6. Logos in The Temple, pg. 190*7. "Nothing is but what is not": Solutions to the Problem of Nothing, pg. 219*8. Le pari: All or Nothing, pg. 252*9. Still Life: Paradoxes of Being, pg. 273*10. Being and Becoming: Paradoxes in the Language of Things, pg. 300*11. Being and Becoming in The Faerie Queene, pg. 329*12. "I am that I am": Problems of Self-Reference, pg. 355*13. The Rhetoric of Transcendent Know ledge, pg. 396*14. Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy and the Structure of Paradox, pg. 430*15. "Reason in Madness", pg. 461*16. "Mine own Executioner", pg. 482*Epilogue, pg. 508*Bibliography, pg. 521*Index, pg. 543
