The Age of Subtlety: Nature and Rhetorical Conceits in Early Modern Europe (The Early Modern Exchange) - Tapa dura

Patiño Loira, Javier

 
9781644533451: The Age of Subtlety: Nature and Rhetorical Conceits in Early Modern Europe (The Early Modern Exchange)
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ISBN 10: 1644533456 ISBN 13: 9781644533451
Editorial: University of Delaware Press, 2024

Sinopsis

A craze for intricate metaphors, referred to as conceits, permeated all forms of communication in seventeenth-century Italy and Spain, reshaping reality in highly creative ways. The Age of Subtlety: Nature and Rhetorical Conceits in Early Modern Europe situates itself at the crossroads of rhetoric, poetics, and the history of science, analyzing technical writings on conceits by such scholars as Baltasar GraciÁn, Matteo Peregrini, and Emanuele Tesauro against the background of debates on telescopic and microscopic vision, the generation of living beings, and the boundaries between the natural and the artificial. It contends that in order to understand conceits, we must locate them within the early modern culture of ingenuity that was also responsible for the engineer’s machines, the juggler’s sleight of hand, the wiles of the statesman, and the discovery of truths about nature.

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JAVIER PATIÑO LOIRA is assistant professor of Spanish at UCLA. He is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on early modern Italian and Spanish rhetorical and poetic theory and the formation of libraries, as well as ideas on education and translation.

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University of Delaware Press
Año de publicación
2024
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1644533456
ISBN 13 
9781644533451
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Editorial: University of Delaware Press, 2024
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