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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Ettenhuber, Katrin

Titel

The logical Renaissance : literature, cognition, and argument, 1479-1630

Ort / Verlag

Oxford : Oxford University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

[2023]

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• "The Logical Renaissance: Literature, Cognition, and Argument, 1479-1630 is the first substantial account of early modern English literature's deep but uncharted relationship with logic. The nature and functions of logic have been largely misunderstood in literary criticism of the period, where it is often seen as sterile and formalistic: either an overcomplex remnant of Medieval philosophy superseded by rhetoric, or part of a Ramist pedagogy so stripped backthat it had little to offer in the way of creative inspiration. Katrin Ettenhuber shows instead that early modern writers encountered in their study of logic a vibrantly practical art of argument and reasoning, which provided rich opportunities for imaginative engagement and artistic appropriation. Far from being moribund, logic was promulgated at school and university and in a mass of texts, including many continental Latin sources whose influence is explored here."