Indecorous thinking : figures of speech in early modern poetics

Indecorous thinking : figures of speech in early modern poetics / Colleen Ruth Rosenfeld.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rosenfeld, Colleen Ruth (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2018.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
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.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Early works.
Table of Contents:
  • Inventing figures of speech
  • Figure pointing in the humanist schoolroom
  • Queenly fig trees: figures of speech and decorum
  • Such as might best be: simile in Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene
  • Fighting words: antithesis in Philip Sidney's Arcadia
  • Withholding words: periphrasis in Mary Wroth's Urania.

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