Renaissance Literary Theory and Practice : Classicism in the Rhetoric and Poetic of Italy, France, and England 1400-1600 / Charles Sears Baldwin; Donald Lemen Clark.
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- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1939]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Interprets the rhetoric and poetry of the Renaissance afresh from typical theory and practice as the first step toward interpreting those traditions of criticism which were most influential in the middle ages.
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- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- Contents
- I. The Renaissance as a Literary Period
- II. Latin, Greek, and the Vernaculars
- III. Imitation of Prose Forms, Ciceronianism, Rhetorics
- IV. Imitation in Lyric and Pastoral
- V. Romance
- VI. Drama
- VII. Sixteenth-Century Poetics
- VIII. Prose Narrative
- IX. Essays
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
- ISBN:
- 0-231-88959-3
- OCLC:
- 1100453129
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