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  1. Tropes and the literary-scientific revolution
    forms of proof
    Published: 2024
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York, NY ; Taylor & Francis Group, London

    "Tropes & the Literary-Scientific Revolution: Forms of Proof argues that the rise of mechanical science in the seventeenth century had a profound impact on both language and literature. To the extent that new ideas about things were accompanied by... more

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    "Tropes & the Literary-Scientific Revolution: Forms of Proof argues that the rise of mechanical science in the seventeenth century had a profound impact on both language and literature. To the extent that new ideas about things were accompanied by new attitudes toward words, what we commonly regard as the "scientific revolution" inevitably bore literary dimensions as well. Literary tropes and forms underwent tremendous reassessment in the seventeenth century, and early modern science was shaped just as powerfully by contest over the place of literary figures, from personification and metaphor to anamorphosis and allegory. In their rejection of teleological explanations of natural motion, for instance, early modern philosophers often disputed the value of personification, a figural projection of interiority onto what was becoming increasingly a mechanical world. And allegory--a dominant mode of literature from the late Middle Ages until well into the Renaissance--became "the vice of those times," as Thomas Rymer described it in 1674. This book shows that its acute devaluation was possible only in conjunction with a distinctively modern physics. Analyzing writings by Sidney, Shakespeare, Bacon, Jonson, Brahe, Kepler, Galileo, Hobbes, Descartes, and more, it asserts that the scientific revolution was a literary phenomenon, just as the literary revolution was also a scientific one"--...

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781003368298; 1003368298; 9781040013946; 1040013945; 9781040013908; 1040013902
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    Series: Routledge studies in renaissance literature and culture
    Subjects: Literature and science; Allegory; SCIENCE / History
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource