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Uncommon tongues : eloquence and eccentricity in the English Renaissance /
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-...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
©2014
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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