Wit and Rhetoric in the Renaissance : The Formal Basis of Elizabethan Prose Style / William G. Crane.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crane, William G., author.

Series:

Columbia University Studies in English and Comparative Literature ; 129

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1937]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Defines the term wit as it was used with reference to literary skill in the age of Elizabeth. The study revolves around the close association, during the latter half of the 16th century, between wit and rhetoric.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I. INTRODUCTION

II. A GENERAL EXAMINATION OF WIT IN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES

III. THE ENGLISH COMMONPLACE BOOKS

IV. LOGIC

V. RHETORIC IN THE SCHOOLS OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY

VI. THE THEORY OF IMITATION AND ITS RELATION TO AMPLIFICATION AND WIT

VII. ENGLISH RHETORICS OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY

VIII. THE MORAL DISCOURSE

IX. BOOKS OF INSTRUCTION FOR THE COURTIER

X. THE ESSAY AND THE CHARACTER

XI THE SENTIMENTAL NOVEL AND THE ROMANCE

XII. THE NARRATIVE DISCOURSE

XIII. EPILOGUE

APPENDICES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-89968-8

OCLC:

1100436231