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Imagining the Soul in Premodern Literature
- Springer International Publishing
- 2021
- Gebunden
- 260 Seiten
- ISBN 9783030663322
This book is a study of ghostly matters - of the soul - in literature spanning the tenth century and the age of Shakespeare. All people, according to John Donne, ¿constantly beleeve¿ that they have an immortal soul. But he also reflects that in fact there is nothing ¿so well established as constrains us to beleeve, both that the soul is immortall, and that every particular man hath such a soul¿. In understanding the question of man's disembodied part as at once fundamental and fundamentally uncertain he was entirely of his time, and Imagining the Soul in Premodern Literature considers this fraught, shifting, yet uniquely compelling
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