The Renaissance Discovery Of Time. Quinones, Ricardo J.: Literaturwissenschaft

XVI, 549 p. Good and clean copy without markings, only the spine is faded due to light. - Contents Preface Part I 1 The Setting The Argument of Time Being 2 Dante Time and the City Inferno: Fame and Children Divine Comedy, Succession and Decline Purgatory Paradise 3 Petrarch Introduction 106 Heroic Possibilities Great Hopes Defeated The Argument of Time Temporal Ease and "Readiness" Last Things Part II 4 The Backgrounds of History and Tragedy in Sixteenth-Century Thought 5 Rabelais Children, Education and Time The Tiers Livre: The Skeptical Reaction Montaigne 6 Introduction "The Vanity of the Human Position" "A nous la liberté" Being 7 Spenser Monuments of Time The Bower of Bliss and the Garden of Adonis "Trial" Mutability 8 Shakespeare's Histories An Overview of Basic Issues The Dramatic Exploitation of Time The Early Sonnets and the Argument of Time Richard II The Growth of Hal The Significance of Time in Shakespeare's Histories Between History and Tragedy: Macbeth 9 Shakespeare's Tragedies Introduction Tragedies of Love Hamlet and King Lear 10 Shakespeare's Comedies and Last Plays Length of Time in the Last Plays The Winter's Tale The Tempest 11 Milton The Ways of Succession Paradise Lost Paradise Regained Samson Agonistes and Divine Comedy 12 Summary and Epilogue Notes Index. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550