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Jonsonian Discriminations : The Humanist Poet and the Praise of True Nobility /

At the heart of all Ben Jonson's nondramatic poetry, argues Michael McCanles, lies the concept of true nobility. Jonson sought to transform the inherited aristocracy of England into an aristocracy of humanist virtue in which he could claim a place through his achievement of true nobility by the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: McCanles, Michael
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 1992.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The poetics of discrimination
  • Jonson and "Vera Nobilitas"
  • Signs of nobility and the nobility of signs
  • "Vera Nobilitas" as a theory of epideictic rhetoric
  • Jonson at court.