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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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
[2018]
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Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
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. |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (312 pages). |
ISBN: | 9780823277940 |