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Hermogenes and the Renaissance : seven ideas of style /

Annabel M. Patterson offers here a reassessment of the place of Hermogenes, a Greek rhetorician of the second century A.D., in literary history. She shows that the literary men of the European Renaissance-scholars, critics, and poets-found Hermogenes' Concerning Ideas both important and extreme...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Patterson, Annabel M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1970.
Colección:Princeton legacy library.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. "Imitation of Great Masters": Decorum of Style
  • 2. "The Seven Capital Stars": Descriptions of the Seven Ideas
  • 3. "High Talk": Canzone and Ode
  • 4. "Savage Indignation": Elizabethan Satire
  • 5. "True Nakedness": Elizabethan Sonnets
  • 6. "Courage Means Running": The Idea of Speed
  • 7. "The Grand Master-Piece to Observe": Renaissance Epic
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography. Some Renaissance Editions and Translations of Hermogenes, 1500-1650
  • General Bibliography
  • Index