Renaissance figures of speech

by Adamson, Sylvia Alexander, Gavin,, (English professor) Ettenhuber, Katrin

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Full title :Renaissance figures of speech / edited by Sylvia Adamson, Gavin Alexander and Katrin Ettenhuber.

Summary

The Renaissance saw a renewed and energetic engagement with classical rhetoric; recent years have seen a similar revival of interest in Renaissance rhetoric. As Renaissance critics recognised, figurative language is the key area of intersection between rhetoric and literature. This book is the first modern account of Renaissance rhetoric to focus solely on the figures of speech. It reflects a belief that the figures exemplify the larger concerns of rhetoric, and connect, directly or by analogy, to broader cultural and philosophical concerns within early modern society. Thirteen authoritative contributors have selected a rhetorical figure with a special currency in Renaissance writing and have used it as a key to one of the period's characteristic modes of perception, forms of argument, states of feeling or styles of reading.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2007.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Language:eng
Publication Date:2007.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xiv, 306 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780511988806, 051198880X, 1107776783, 9781107776784, 1107778670, 9781107778672, 1107784840, 9781107784840, 1107779944, 9781107779945, 1107781183, 9781107781184, 1107784387, 9781107784383
oclc:ocn871316432
LC Classification:PN227
Dewey Decimal:809.031

Synonymia: or, in other words / Sylvia Adamson -- Compar or parison: measure for measure / Russ McDonald -- Periodos: squaring the circle / Janel Mueller -- Puns: serious wordplay / Sophie Read -- Prosopopoeia: the speaking figure / Gavin Alexander -- Ekphrasis: painting in words / Claire Preston -- Hysteron proteron: or the preposterous / Patricia Parker -- Paradiastole: redescribing the vices as virtues / Quentin Skinner -- Syncrisis: the figure of contestation / Ian Donaldson -- Testimony: the artless proof / R.W. Serjeantson -- Hyperbole: exceeding similitude / Katrin Ettenhuber -- Metalepsis: the boundaries of metaphor / Brian Cummings -- The vices of style / William Poole.

Subjects

Criticism, interpretation, etc Englisch European literature -- History and crit… European literature -- Renaissance Figures de rhétorique dans la littératu… Figures of speech in literature Littérature européenne -- Histoire et c… Rhetorische Figur