Linguistics & Semiotics, General & Miscellaneous European History, Literary Theory, General & Miscellaneous Literary Criticism, Renaissance & Modern Philosophy, English Literature
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Overview
'Tis All One seeks to understand the epistemological shift to the empirical validation of truth that characterized the intellectual climate in Western Europe at the beginning of the seventeenth century. It focuses on the frustrations that Robert Burton could not suppress as he wrote The Anatomy of Melancholy, applying the model of copious discourse that Desiderius Erasmus encouraged nascent rhetoricians to employ in the de Copia he published a century earlier. By 1620 Burton cries out there are "too many books" for him to read on the subject of melancholy and finds that sixteenth-century methodologies yield bitter fruit.Editorials
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Whether regarded as medical treatise or brilliant satire, reflects Robert Burton's frustrations over "too many books" to research in the context of Erasmus' model of copious discourse. Aiming to infuse undergraduate literature courses with poststructuralist criticism now mainly the realm of graduate study, Schmelzer (St. Joseph's College, Phila., PA) places Erasmus' (1512) center stage in the epistemological shift to the empirical validation of truth in 17th century Western Europe. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)Book Details
Published
April 1, 1999
Publisher
New York : P. Lang, c1999.
Pages
140
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780820436647