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Renaissance Figures of Speech.
A collection of essays, each tackling a Renaissance figure of speech in literature.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Preface; Note on spelling and references; Introduction: the figures in Renaissance theory and practice; RHETORIC AND LITERATURE; THE FIGURES IN RHETORICAL THEORY; THE FIGURES IN PRACTICE; THE SCOPE AND ORGANISATION OF THIS VOLUME; CHAPTER 1; Synonymia: or, in other words; WHAT IS SYNONYMIA?; SYNONYMIA AND THE MODERN READER; THE PEDAGOGICS OF SYNONYMIA; THE AESTHETICS OF SYNONYMIA; CHAPTER 2; Compar or parison: measure for measure; POETS AND CARPENTERS; PARISONIC SOUNDS.
- SIMILITUDE IN POETRY AND PROSESYMPHONIE TO SYMMETRIE; WORDS AND THINGS; CHAPTER 3; Periodos: squaring the circle; QUINTILIAN AND THE CLASSICAL PERIOD; VIVES AND THE HUMANIST PERIOD; PERIODOS AS A FIGURE OF ORDER IN SIXTEENTH-CENTURY PROSE; BACON AND THE COMPOSITION OF THE SENTENCE; CIRCUIT AND APHORISM IN DONNE; REVIVING VIVES: JONSON AND THE LATER SEVENTEENTH CENTURY; CHAPTER 4; Puns: serious wordplay; CHAPTER 5; Prosopopoeia: the speaking figure; PROSOPOPOEIA IN RHETORICAL THEORY; PROSOPOPOEIA IN RENAISSANCE PRACTICE; BORROWED VOICES; CONCLUSION; CHAPTER 6; Ekphrasis: painting in words.
- CHAPTER 7Hysteron proteron: or the preposterous; FROM HYSTERON PROTERON TO THE PREPOSTEROUS; THE PREPOSTEROUS IN RELIGIOUS WRITING; CHAPTER 8; Paradiastole: redescribing the vices as virtues; CHAPTER 9; Syncrisis: the figure of contestation; CHAPTER 10; Testimony: the artless proof; THEORIES OF TESTIMONY; PRESENTING TESTIMONY; TESTIMONY AND ITS NEIGHBOURS; TESTIMONY AND 'TRUE VALUE'; THE FORTUNES OF TESTIMONY; CHAPTER 11; Hyperbole: exceeding similitude; PEACOCKS, FOOLS, AND THINGS IN BETWEEN; VERSIONS OF THE SUBLIME; POETIC LIARS AND VIRTUOUS TRUTHS; CONCLUSION; CHAPTER 12.
- Metalepsis: the boundaries of metaphorTHE FIGURE IN THEORY; METALEPSIS AND FAILURE; ERASMUS'S THEORY OF FIGURATION IN DE COPIA; RES AND VERBA; CHAPTER 13; The vices of style; PROBLEMS OF DEFINITION; A CATALOGUE OF VICES; SHIFTING VALUES; SOME LITERARY APPLICATIONS; CONCLUSION; Notes; Suggestions for further reading; Index.