Colleen Ruth Rosenfeld: 1 book

Book cover of Indecorous Thinking

Indecorous Thinking

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...
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