“True Image Pictur’d”: Metaphor, Epistemology, and Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Description:
In this dissertation, I examine the influence of Pyrrhonist skepticism over Shakespeare’s sonnets. Unlike academic skepticism, which begins from a position of doubt, Pyrrhonist skepticism encourages an embrace of multiple perspectives that, according to Sextus Empiricus, leads first to a suspension of judgment and ultimately to a state of tranquility. The Pyrrhonian inflection of Shakespeare’s sonnets accounts for the pleasure and uncertainty they cultivate in readers. By offering readers multi…
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Date:
May 2014
Creator:
Kellogg, Amanda O.
Partner:
UNT Libraries