Renaissance figures of speech / edited by Sylvia Adamson, Gavin Alexander and Katrin Ettenhuber.
Adamson, Sylvia.; Alexander, Gavin (English professor); Ettenhuber, Katrin.
2007
PN227 .R46 2007 (Mapit)
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Title
Renaissance figures of speech / edited by Sylvia Adamson, Gavin Alexander and Katrin Ettenhuber.
ISBN
9780521866408
0521866405
Publication Details
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Language
English
Description
xiv, 306 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
PN227 .R46 2007
Dewey Decimal Classification
809.031
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-294) and index.
Added Author
Adamson, Sylvia.
Alexander, Gavin (English professor)
Ettenhuber, Katrin.
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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.

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