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Dictionary of sexual language and imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart literature : A-Z (Three volume set) /
Providing an alphabetical listing of sexual language and locution in 16th and 17th-century English, this book draws especially on the more immediate literary modes: the theatre, broadside ballads, newsbooks and pamphlets. The aim is to assist the reader of Shakespearean and Stuart literature to iden...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Atlantic Highlands, NJ :
Athlone Press,
2000.
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| Colección: | Athlone Shakespeare Dictionary.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Providing an alphabetical listing of sexual language and locution in 16th and 17th-century English, this book draws especially on the more immediate literary modes: the theatre, broadside ballads, newsbooks and pamphlets. The aim is to assist the reader of Shakespearean and Stuart literature to identify metaphors and elucidate meanings; and more broadly, to chart, through illustrative quotation, shifting and recurrent linguistic patterns. Linguistic habit is closely bound up with the ideas and assumptions of a period, and the figurative language of sexuality across this period is highly illumi. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (1649 pages). |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781847142566 1847142567 |