1st Edition

Renaissance Literature and Linguistic Creativity

By James Harmer Copyright 2016
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

Renaissance Literature and Linguistic Creativity interrogates notions of linguistic creativity as presented in English literary texts of the late sixteenth century. It considers the reflections of Renaissance English writers upon the problem of how linguistic meaning is created in their work. The book achieves this consideration by placing its Renaissance authors in the context of the dominant... Read more
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Biography

James Harmer is a former Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. He works at an international law firm in London.

"(…) this book is a significant contribution to recent work on the contours of pre-

Cartesian Renaissance scepticism."Katherine Eggert, University of Colorado Boulder, USA