Uncommon Tongues : Eloquence and Eccentricity in the English Renaissance /

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In the late sixteenth century, as England began to assert its integrity as a nation and English its merit as a literate tongue, vernacular writing took a turn for the eccentric. Authors such as John Lyly, Edmund Spenser, and Christopher Marlowe loudly announced their ambitions for the mother tongue-...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nicholson, Catherine (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2013]
Temas:
Eloquence in literature.
English language > Early modern, 1500-1700 > Rhetoric.
English language > Early modern, 1500-1700 > Style.
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare.
Cultural Studies.
Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction. Antisocial Orpheus
  • Chapter 1. Good Space and Time: Humanist Pedagogy and the Uses of Estrangement
  • Chapter 2. The Commonplace and the Far-Fetched: Mapping Eloquence in the English Art of Rhetoric
  • Chapter 3. "A World to See": Euphues's Wayward Style
  • Chapter 4. Pastoral in Exile: Colin Clout and the Poetics of English Alienation
  • Chapter 5. "Conquering Feet": Tamburlaine and the Measure of English
  • Coda. Eccentric Shakespeare
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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