Figures of Speech in Early Modern Poetics
by
Colleen Ruth Rosenfeld
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Indecorous Thinking is a study of artifice at its most conspicuous: it argues that early modern writers turned to figures of speech like simile, antithesis, and periphrasis as the instruments of a particular kind of thinking unique to the emergent field of vernacular poesie. The classical ideal of...