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This book offers the first sustained assessment of the ways in which recent contemporary philosophy and cultural theory – including the work of Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, Eric Santner, Slavoj Zizek, and Alenka Zupancic – can illuminate Early Modern literature and culture.

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The Idolatrous State of Exception in John Donne’s Poetry and Prose God’s Extimacy: Divine Excess and Baroque Monads in the Poetry of Richard Crashaw Tarrying with Chaos: Radical Evil and John Milton’s Paradise Lost God beyond Essence: The Event of Love in the Poetry and Prose of Thomas Traherne

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PAUL CEFALU is an Associate Professor in the Department of English, Lafayette College, Pennysylvania, USA.

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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 217 ● ISBN 9780230607491 ● File size 1.1 MB ● Publisher Palgrave Macmillan US ● City New York ● Country US ● Published 2007 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 2306891 ● Copy protection Social DRM

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