Acknowledgments ; Introduction; ONE ; The Free Reader: Hypothetical Necessity in Fiction; TWO ; Free Reward: Merit in Courtly Literature; THREE ; The Free Creator: Causality and Beginnings; FOUR ; Free Choice in Fiction: Will and Its Objects in Rabelais; FIVE; The Free Poet: Sovereignty and the Satirist; Epilogue: Will and Perspective; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.
Summary
The closely related problems of creativity and freedom have long been seen as emblematic of the Renaissance. Ullrich Langer, however, argues that French and Italian Renaissance literature can be profitably reconceived in terms of the way these problems are treated in late medieval scholasticism in general and nominalist theology in particular. Looking at a subject that is relatively unexplored by literary critics, Langer introduces the reader to some basic features of nominalist theology and uses these to focus on what we find to be ""modern"" in French and Italian literature of the fifteen.
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