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"Death, light, figuration and, especially, analogical expressions of figuration, are the primary subjects of this book. They generate associated interests: the relation of literature and science, the methodology of thought and argument, and the processes of narrative, discovery, and interpretation. Creativity, optics, rhetoric, and language are focal as well"-- Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: Issues of Death, Life, and Analogy -- 1. Body of Death: The Pauline Inheritance in Donne's Sermons, Spenser's Maleger, and Milton's Sin and Death -- 2. Mutability and Mortality in The Faerie Queene -- 3. Satanic Ethos: The Origin of Evil and Death and the Attainment of Individuality in Paradise Lost -- 4. Connecting the Cultural Dots: Classical, Medieval, Early Modern, and Modern Traditions of Analogy -- 5. Proportional Thinking in Kepler's Science of Light -- 6. Analogy, Proportion, and Death in Donne's Anniversaries -- 7. Milton's Twilight Zone: Analogy, Light, and Darkness in Paradise Lost -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index
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