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Renaissance figures of speech

This book is the first modern account of Renaissance rhetoric to focus solely on the figures of speech. It reflects a belief that the figures exemplify the larger concerns of rhetoric, and connect, directly or by analogy, to broader cultural and philosophical concerns within early modern society
Print Book, English, 2007
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2007
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xiv, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780521866408, 9780521187053, 9781107778672, 0521866405, 0521187052, 1107778670
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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