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The Purple Island and Anatomy in Early Seventeenth-Century Literature, Philosophy, and Theology
The Purple Island and Anatomy in Early SeventeenthCentury Literature Philosophy and Theology
Author: Peter Mitchell
This book sets out to reconstruct and analyze the rationality of Phineas Fletcher's use of figurality in "The Purple Island" (1633) - a poetic allegory of human anatomy. To this end, textual analyses of "The Purple Island" lead via bibliographical, biographical, conceptual, formal, and linguistic connections to other works of literature, natural...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780838640180
ISBN-10: 0838640184
Publication Date: 11/30/2007
Pages: 718
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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