Renaissance figures of speech

Title Statements

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

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2009, ©2007.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Language:eng
Publication Date:2009, ©2007.

The Physical Object

Description:xiv, 306 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780521866408, 0521866405
oclc:ocn326805653
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

Aufsatzsammlung Criticism, interpretation, etc Englisch European literature -- History and crit… European literature -- Renaissance Figures de rhétorique dans la littératu… Figures of speech in literature Geschichte 1420-1600 Littérature européenne -- Histoire et c… Rhetorische Figur