Letter to Editors
When explaining More's witty Latin phrase, as I did several weeks ago to a class on the Renaissance, I still, after all these years, mention Elizabeth's brilliant essay, as well as the play in this passage on "nusquam" and "utopia." In several weeks I will again mention...
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| Published in | Moreana (Angers) Vol. 52; no. 201/202; p. R15 |
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| Format | Journal Article |
| Language | English |
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Angers
Edinburgh University Press
01.12.2015
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| Summary: | When explaining More's witty Latin phrase, as I did several weeks ago to a class on the Renaissance, I still, after all these years, mention Elizabeth's brilliant essay, as well as the play in this passage on "nusquam" and "utopia." In several weeks I will again mention Elizabeth and recommend her 1972 essay in ELR when explaining why Francis Bacon's New Atlantis has so many cherubs-Bacon knew, Elizabeth argues, that the scientific revolution, as we now call it, would need us to have charity as well as experiments and technological innovation. Since reading Elizabeth's booklet I have never read More's works without an ear yet more attuned to his play with paradox-and very serious play when More was on the scaffold and, there's good reason to believe, deliberately exploiting one of the "paradoxia stoicorum" that Elizabeth explores in a brilliant essay for Moreana (1985); or so we may believe if he indeed did say, "I die the king's good servant and [not, as in the English version, "but"] God's first." |
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| ISSN: | 0047-8105 2398-4961 |