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Ramachandran, Ayesha.

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Worldmaking in early modern Europe: Global imaginations from Montaigne to Milton.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Worldmaking in early modern Europe: Global imaginations from Montaigne to Milton./
作者:	Ramachandran, Ayesha.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2008,
面頁冊數:	436 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-06, Section: A, page: 2260.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-06A.
標題:	Comparative literature. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3317274
ISBN:	9780549653196

Worldmaking in early modern Europe: Global imaginations from Montaigne to Milton.
Ramachandran, Ayesha.

Worldmaking in early modern Europe: Global imaginations from Montaigne to Milton. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2008 - 436 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-06, Section: A, page: 2260.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 2008.

This study tells two related stories about the place of fiction-making and global expansion in the late Renaissance: the disintegration and refashioning of the world as a coherent concept from about 1580 to 1670, and the developing epistemological importance of imaginary-world fictions to that process. The post-Columbian world of the sixteenth century was no longer the familiar, divinely ordered, humanly mapped terrain well-known to classical antiquity and the Middle Ages. By the 1580s, the culmination of several related movements---such as the pursuit of colonial and commercial exploration, the growing intellectual trends of skeptical thought, theological questioning, and astronomical speculation---exposed the inability of traditional explanatory systems to comprehend the world as a discrete unit. The world now demanded a new intellectual framework that would organize an amorphous global consciousness into a coherent form or system.

ISBN: 9780549653196Subjects--Topical Terms:

570001
Comparative literature.

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520 $a My project examines four representative philosophical and poetic texts of the period---Montaigne's Essais, Spenser's Faerie Queene, Descartes' Le monde and Milton's Paradise Lost---as responses to this crisis of worldmaking. Each one takes the world as its key subject, and despite diversity, all are united by their approach to reconceive the global whole: all imagine alternate worlds of a fictional or hypothetical nature that provide possible paradigms for reformulating an idea of "the world."
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