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This book sets out to reconstruct and analyze the rationality of Phineas Fletchers use of figurality in The Purple Island (1633) a poetic allegory of human anatomy. To this end, textual analyses of The Purple Island lead via bibliographical, biographical, conceptual, formal, and linguistic connections to other works of literature, natural philosophy and theology, and to anatomical demonstrations.

The Purple Island and Anatomy in Early Seventeenth-Century Literature, Philosophy, and Theology

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    Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
    Publication Date: 01/10/2007
    ISBN13: 9781611472769, 978-1611472769
    ISBN10: 1611472768

    Number of Pages: 718

    Non Fiction , ELT & Literary Studies , Education

    Description

    This book sets out to reconstruct and analyze the rationality of Phineas Fletchers use of figurality in The Purple Island (1633) a poetic allegory of human anatomy. To this end, textual analyses of The Purple Island lead via bibliographical, biographical, conceptual, formal, and linguistic connections to other works of literature, natural philosophy and theology, and to anatomical demonstrations.

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