Bøker av Judith H. Anderson

The grammar and rhetoric of Tudor and Stuart England prioritized words and word-like figures rather than sentences, a prioritizing that had significact consequences for linguistic representation.This is an analysis of the grammar and rhetoric of Tudor and Stuart England.

Death, light, figuration and, especially, analogical expressions of figuration, are the primary subjects of this book. They generate associated interests: the relation of literature and science, the methodology of thought and argument, and the processes of narrative, discovery, and interpretation. Creativity, optics, rhetoric, and language are focal as well.

Conceives the intertext as a relation between or among texts that encompasses both Kristevan intertextuality and traditional relationships of influence, imitation, allusion, and citation. This work focuses on relations between Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" and Spenser's "The Faerie Queene", including the role of the narrator.