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Informationen zum Autor Michelle Zerba is Associate Professor of English, Classics, and Comparative Literature at Louisiana State University. She is the author of Tragedy and Theory: The Problem of Conflict since Aristotle (1988) and numerous articles on literature, rhetoric and philosophy in antiquity and the Renaissance. Klappentext An interdisciplinary study of the forms and uses of uncertainty in important works of literature and philosophy in antiquity and the Renaissance. "...exceptionally well-executed interdisciplinary study... Muscular prose, keen insight, and breadth of vision distinguish this uncommonly perceptive effort... Highly recommended..." --H.I. Einsohn, Middlesex Community College, CHOICE Zusammenfassung An interdisciplinary study of the forms and uses of uncertainty in important works of literature and philosophy in antiquity and the Renaissance. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. 'Farewell the Tranquil Mind': Tragic Doubt in Homer's Iliad, Sophocles' Philoctetes, and Shakespeare's Othello: 1. Achilles' doubt and the construction of a heroism-at-one-remove in Homer's Iliad; 2. Moral doubt and the contradictory claims of pity in Sophocles' Philoctetes; 3. 'Do as if for surety': doubt and delusions of certainty in Shakespeare's Othello; Part II. Comic Skepticism and Polytropic Strategies in Homer's Odyssey, Aristophanes' Women of the Thesmophoria, and Shakespeare's As You Like It: 4. Wandering Odysseus, pyrrhonist Penelope, and the return from alienation in Homer's Odyssey; 5. Parody, androgyny, and skeptical inversions of gender and genre in Aristophanes' Women of the Thesmophoria and Shakespeare's As You Like It; Part III. Skepticism, Politics, and Rhetoric in the Works of Cicero, Machiavelli, and Montaigne: 6. Skeptical constructions of identity in Roman and Renaissance humanism; 7. Academic skepticism and Cicero's republican politics; 8. A Ciceronian Machiavelli; 9. Montaigne's pyrrhonist politics....
