The Purple island and anatomy in early seventeenth-century literature, philosophy, and theology / Peter Mitchell.

  • Mitchell, Peter, 1968-
Date:
[2007], ©2007
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Publication/Creation

Madison, [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2007], ©2007.

Physical description

718 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. [632]-656) and index.

Contents

Conceptual metaphors of the "Isle of man" -- The creative metaphor of the "Isle of man" -- Creation, mortality, and salvation -- Hermeneutics and intertextuality -- The literary context -- The form of stanza and margin -- Questions of provenance and conceptual character -- The heart, veins, and arteries -- Lectures and demonstrations in the anatomy theater.

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    History of Medicine
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  • 0838640184
  • 9780838640180