| Description |
1 online resource |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Inventing figures of speech -- Figure pointing in the humanist schoolroom -- Queenly fig trees: figures of speech and decorum -- Such as might best be: simile in Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene -- Fighting words: antithesis in Philip Sidney's Arcadia -- Withholding words: periphrasis in Mary Wroth's Urania. |
| Summary |
Indecorous Thinking argues that early modern writers including Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, and Mary Wroth challenged humanism's increasingly dogmatic conflation of truth with plainness by treating figures of speech as the instruments of thinking and as the engines of poetry's imaginative worlds. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
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Figures of speech in literature.
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Figures of speech -- Early works to 1800.
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English language -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Rhetoric.
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POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. |
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English language -- Early modern -- Rhetoric |
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English poetry -- Early modern |
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Figures of speech |
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Figures of speech in literature |
| Chronological Term |
1500-1700 |
| Indexed Term |
Decorum. |
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Edmund Spenser. |
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Eloquence. |
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Epistemology. |
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Figures of Speech. |
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Form. |
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Mary Wroth. |
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Philip Sidney. |
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Style. |
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rhetoric. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Early works
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Rosenfeld, Colleen Ruth. Indecorous thinking. New York : Fordham University Press, [2018] 9780823277919 0823277917 (DLC) 2017022691 (OCoLC)990373146 |
| ISBN |
9780823277940 (electronic bk.) |
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0823277941 (electronic bk.) |
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9780823277926 |
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9780823277919 |
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0823277917 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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0823277925 |
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