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Outlaw rhetoric : figuring vernacular eloquence in Shakespeare's England / Jenny C. Mann.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PR418.E45 M36 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mann, Jenny C. (Jenny Caroline), 1978-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Eloquence in literature.
- Figures of speech in literature.
- National characteristics, English, in literature.
- Rhetoric, Renaissance--England.
- English language--Rhetoric--Handbooks, manuals, etc--Early works to 1800.
- English language--Rhetoric--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Rhetoric, Renaissance.
- England.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 249 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012.
- Summary:
- Mann (English, Cornell U.) begins by investigating why the elusive figure of Robin Hood lurks around so many early efforts to introduce classical rhetoric into English during the 16th century. From there, her study expands to the pursuit of a specifically vernacular eloquence in early modern England, described in an early text as making classical figures of speech speak English. Among her topics are displacing Virgilian figures in Spenser's Faerie Queene, mingling heroes and hobgoblins in A Midsummer Night's Dream, and gender exchange in Shakespeare's sonnet 20 and Jonson's Epicene. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780801449659
- 0801449650
- OCLC:
- 739914711
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