Lyric wonder : rhetoric and wit in Renaissance English poetry /

James Biester sees the shift in late Elizabethan England toward a witty, rough, and obscure lyric style - metaphysical wit and strong lines - as a response to the heightened cultural prestige of wonder. That same prestige was demonstrated in the search for strange artifacts and animals to display in...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Biester, James
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1997.
Series:Rhetoric & society.
Subjects:
1500-1700
English poetry > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
English language > Early modern, 1500-1700 > Rhetoric.
English wit and humor > History and criticism.
Rhetoric, Renaissance.
Renaissance > England.
Poésie anglaise > 16e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Anglais (Langue) > 1500-1700 (Moderne) > Rhétorique.
Humour anglais > Histoire et critique.
Rhétorique de la Renaissance.
Renaissance > Angleterre.
POETRY > Medieval.
English language > Early modern > Rhetoric.
English poetry > Early modern.
English wit and humor.
Renaissance.
Concetto
Englisch
Lyrik
Metaphysical poets
Poetik
Renaissance
Rhetorik
Humor
Gedichten.
Engels.
Retorica.
Humor (grappigheden)
Rhétorique > Histoire.
Anglais (langue) > 1500-1700 (moderne) > Rhétorique.
Poésie anglaise > 17e siècle > Histoire et critique.
England.
Englisch.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Wayne A. Rebhorn
  • Note on Transcriptions and Citations
  • 1. Strange and Admirable Methods
  • 2. The Most Dangerous Game: Wonder, Melancholy, and Satire
  • 3. Suspicious Boldness
  • 4. Powerful Insinuations: Obscurity as Catalyst and Veil
  • 5. Passing Wonder or Wonder Passing?

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