Renaissance Figures of Speech (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Adamson, Sylvia

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781107779266
• Artikelnr.: 52953532

Autorenporträt

Sylvia Adamson is Professor of English Literature, Language and Linguistics at the University of Sheffield.
Gavin Alexander is Lecturer in the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge.
Katrin Ettenhuber is Fellow and Lecturer in English at Pembroke College, Cambridge.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: the figures in Renaissance theory and practice Sylvia Adamson, Gavin Alexander and Katrin Ettenhuber
1. Synonymia: or, in other words Sylvia Adamson
2. Compar or Parison: measure for measure Russ McDonald
3. Periodos: squaring the circle Janel Mueller
4. Puns: serious wordplay Sophie Read
5. Prosopopoeia: the speaking figure Gavin Alexander
6. Ekphrasis: painting in words Claire Preston
7. Hysteron proteron, or the preposterous Patricia Parker
8. Paradiastole: redescribing the vices as virtues Quentin Skinner
9. Syncrisis: the figure of contestation Ian Donaldson
10. Testimony: the artless proof R. W. Serjeantson
11. Hyperbole: exceeding similitude Katrin Ettenhuber
12. Metalepsis: the boundaries of metaphor Brian Cummings
13. The vices of style William Poole.