Format:
XIII, 249 S.
,
Ill.
Edition:
1. publ.
ISBN:
9780801449659
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis S. 223 - 235
,
Introduction : a tale of Robin Hood -- Common rhetoric : planting figures of speech in the English shire -- The trespasser : displacing Virgilian figures in Spenser's Faerie queene -- The insertour : putting the parenthesis in Sidney's Arcadia -- The changeling : mingling heroes and hobgoblins in Shakespeare's A midsummer night's dream -- The figure of exchange : gender exchange in Shakespeare's Sonnet 20 and Jonson's Epicoene -- The mingle-mangle : the hodgepodge of fancy and philosophy in Cavendish's Blazing world -- Conclusion : "words made visible" and the turn against rhetoric -- Appendix of English rhetorical manuals.
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Englisch
;
Rhetorik
;
Geschichte 1500-1700
URL:
Volltext
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