| Indecorous Thinking: Figures of Speech in Early Modern Poetics Contributor(s): Rosenfeld, Colleen Ruth (Author) |
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ISBN: 0823277925 ISBN-13: 9780823277926 Publisher: Fordham University Press OUR PRICE: $37.05 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Renaissance - Education | History - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 821.309 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6" W x 9" (0.95 lbs) 312 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Indecorous Thinking argues that early modern writers including Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, and Mary Wroth challenged humanism's increasingly dogmatic conflation of truth with plainness by treating figures of speech as the instruments of thinking and as the engines of poetry's imaginative worlds. |
Contributor Bio(s): Rosenfeld, Colleen Ruth: - Colleen Ruth Rosenfeld is Associate Professor of English at Pomona College. |