The aim of this paper is to isolate personal passages in Sir Thomas Browne's Religio Medici and put forward some hypotheses as to their function in the general design of the work. As a devotional text, Religio Medici would seem an unlikely site for life-writing. However, when placed in the tradition of Augustine's Confessions and Montaigne's Essais, its autobiographical asides acquire a further level of significance within the general framework of Browne's idea of human consciousness

Bugliani, P. (2019). Sir Thomas Browne's Purple Patches : The Creative Cosmography of the Self in Religio Medici. In Roberta Ferrari, Sara Soncini (a cura di), Worlds of Wods : Complexity, Creativity and Conventionality in English Language, Literature and Culture, Literature Section (pp. 27-37). PISA : Pisa University Press.

Sir Thomas Browne's Purple Patches : The Creative Cosmography of the Self in Religio Medici

Paolo Bugliani
2019-01-01

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to isolate personal passages in Sir Thomas Browne's Religio Medici and put forward some hypotheses as to their function in the general design of the work. As a devotional text, Religio Medici would seem an unlikely site for life-writing. However, when placed in the tradition of Augustine's Confessions and Montaigne's Essais, its autobiographical asides acquire a further level of significance within the general framework of Browne's idea of human consciousness
2019
Settore L-LIN/10 - LETTERATURA INGLESE
English
Rilevanza internazionale
Capitolo o saggio
Sir Thomas Browne
Creativity
Individuality
early modern prose
Bugliani, P. (2019). Sir Thomas Browne's Purple Patches : The Creative Cosmography of the Self in Religio Medici. In Roberta Ferrari, Sara Soncini (a cura di), Worlds of Wods : Complexity, Creativity and Conventionality in English Language, Literature and Culture, Literature Section (pp. 27-37). PISA : Pisa University Press.
Bugliani, P
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