By Susanne Zepp
ISBN-10: 080478745X
ISBN-13: 9780804787451
As "New Christians" in an illiberal international, those thinkers labored in the tensions in their ancient context to question norms and dogmas. long ago, students have concerned with the Jewish origins of such significant figures in literature and philosophy. via shut readings of those texts, Zepp strikes the talk clear of the slender query of the authors' origins to target the cutting edge methods those authors subverted and transcended conventional genres. She translates the adjustments that came about in a variety of literary genres and works of the interval in the broader historic context of the 16th and 17th centuries, demonstrating the level to which the improvement of early glossy subjective attention and its expression in literary works may be defined partially as a universalization of initially Jewish experiences.
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