Outlaw Rhetoric : Figuring Vernacular Eloquence in Shakespeare's England /

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A central feature of English Renaissance humanism was its reverence for classical Latin as the one true form of eloquent expression. Yet sixteenth-century writers increasingly came to believe that England needed an equally distinguished vernacular language to serve its burgeoning national community....

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mann, Jenny C. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2012]
Temas:
Eloquence in literature.
English language > Rhetoric > Handbooks, manuals, etc > Early works to 1800.
English language > Rhetoric > Handbooks, manuals, etc. > Early works to 1800.
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Figures of speech in literature.
National characteristics, English, in literature.
Rhetoric, Renaissance > England.
England.
Literary Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: A Tale of Robin Hood
  • 1. Common Rhetoric: Planting Figures of Speech in the English Shire
  • 2. The Trespasser: Displacing Virgilian Figures in Spenser's Faerie Queene
  • 3. The Insertour: Putting the Parenthesis in Sidney's Arcadia
  • 4. The Changeling: Mingling Heroes and Hobgoblins in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • 5. The Figure of Exchange: Gender Exchange in Shakespeare's Sonnet 20 and Jonson's Epicene
  • 6. The Mingle-Mangle: The Hodgepodge of Fancy and Philosophy in Cavendish's Blazing World
  • Conclusion "Words Made Visible" and the Turn against Rhetoric
  • Appendix of English Rhetorical Manuals
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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