书目名称 | Imagining the Soul in Premodern Literature | 编辑 | Abe Davies | 视频video | http://file.papertrans.cn/462/461868/461868.mp4 | 概述 | Longlisted for the REFORC Book Award 2022.Considers literary souls and ghosts from the medieval period to the age of Shakespeare.Thinks about this fraught, shifting, yet uniquely compelling entity in | 丛书名称 | Early Modern Literature in History | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .This book is a study of ghostly matters - of the soul - in literature spanning the tenth century and the age of Shakespeare. All people, according to John Donne, ‘constantly beleeve’ that they have an immortal soul. But he also reflects that in fact there is nothing ‘so well established as constrains us to beleeve, both that the soul is immortall, and that every particular man hath such a soul’. In understanding the question of man‘s disembodied part as at once fundamental and fundamentally uncertain he was entirely of his time, and .Imagining the Soul in Premodern Literature. considers this fraught, shifting, yet uniquely compelling entity in the context of the literary forms and effects involved in its representation. Gruesome medieval dialogues between damned souls and worm-eaten bodies; verse and prose works by Donne, René Descartes, Margaret Cavendish and Andrew Marvell; a profusion of sonnet sequences, sermons, manuals of instruction and travelogues; .Hamlet .and its natural philosophical thinking about the apparently disembodied soul haunting Elsinore: these chapters range across all this and more, offering a rigorous yet accessible account of an essential aspect of premode | 出版日期 | Book 2021 | 关键词 | Renaissance; Early Modern; Medieval; Religion; Shakespeare; Donne; Marvell; Descartes; Subjectivity; Material | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66333-9 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-66335-3 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-66333-9Series ISSN 2634-5919 Series E-ISSN 2634-5927 | issn_series | 2634-5919 | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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