Divine and poetic freedom in the Renaissance : nominalist theology and literature in France and Italy / Ullrich Langer
1990, 1st edition. Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #425919
ISBN: 0691068534
Physical description; 215 pages. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-209) and index. Contents; Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- ONE. The Free Reader: Hypothetical Necessity in Fiction -- TWO. Free Reward: Merit in Courtly Literature -- THREE. The Free Creator: Causality and Beginnings -- FOUR. Free Choice in Fiction: Will and Its Objects in Rabelais -- FIVE. The Free Poet: Sovereignty and the Satirist -- EPILOGUE: WILL AND PERSPECTIVE -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX. Subjects; To 1599. French literature 16th century History and criticism. Italian literature 16th century History and criticism. Italian literature 15th century History and criticism. French literature To 1500 History and criticism. Free will and determinism in literature. Nominalism in literature. Theology in literature. Renaissance.
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