Indecorous thinking : figures of speech in early modern poetics /

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Indecorous Thinking argues that early modern writers including Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, and Mary Wroth challenged humanism's increasingly dogmatic conflation of truth with plainness by treating figures of speech as the instruments of thinking and as the engines of poetry's imaginativ...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rosenfeld, Colleen Ruth (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
1500-1700
English poetry > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Figures of speech in literature.
Figures of speech > Early works to 1800.
English language > Early modern, 1500-1700 > Rhetoric.
Figures de rhétorique dans la littérature.
Anglais (Langue) > 1500-1700 (Moderne) > Rhétorique.
POETRY > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English language > Early modern > Rhetoric
English poetry > Early modern
Figures of speech
Figures of speech in literature
Decorum.
Edmund Spenser.
Eloquence.
Epistemology.
Figures of Speech.
Form.
Mary Wroth.
Philip Sidney.
Style.
rhetoric.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Early works
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Indecorous Thinking argues that early modern writers including Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, and Mary Wroth challenged humanism's increasingly dogmatic conflation of truth with plainness by treating figures of speech as the instruments of thinking and as the engines of poetry's imaginative worlds.
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780823277940
0823277941

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