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Humanism and style : essays on Erasmus and More /

Clarence Miller''s Humanism and Style: Essays on Erasmus and Thomas More provides an illuminating and circumstantial engagement with the word of two great humanists. Miller''s essays cover a complex terrain that includes the rhetorical functions of stylistic shifts, the deploymen...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Miller, Clarence H.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bethlehem, Pa. : Lehigh University Press, 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Styles and mixed genres in Erasmus's The praise of folly
  • Some medieval elements and structural unity in Erasmus's The praise of folly
  • The liturgical and historical context of Erasmus's hymns
  • The logic and rhetoric of proverbs in Erasmus's The praise of folly
  • The epigrams of More and Erasmus: a literary diptych
  • Style and meaning in More's Utopia: hythloday's sentences and diction
  • More's use of patristic evidence in the Eucharistic controversy
  • The heart of the final struggle: More's commentary on The agony in the garden
  • Thomas More, a man for all seasons: Robert Bolt's play and the Elizabethan play of Sir Thomas More
  • Extraordinary friends.