Nothingness, Negativity, and Nominalism in Shakespeare and Petrarch / / Benjamin Boysen.
Being exposed to the Nominalist expansion in early modernity, Petrarch and Shakespeare are highly preoccupied with a Nominalist dimension of language and representation. Against this background, the study shows how these Renaissance poets advanced a special notion of subjectivity and identity as roo...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- I. Introduction
- II. Petrarch and the Triumph of Exile
- III. Rerum vulgarium fragmenta: Petrarch’s Labyrinthine Mirror
- IV. Shakespeare’s “Nihilism”
- V. Early Modernity and the Foil of Contrarieties
- VI. Literature
- Index