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Indecorous Thinking : Figures of Speech in Early Modern Poetics /

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rosenfeld, Colleen Ruth (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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 (312 pages).
ISBN:9780823277940