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Title Renaissance figures of speech / edited by Sylvia Adamson, Gavin Alexander and Katrin Ettenhuber.

Publication Info. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, [2009, 2007]
©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 306 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-294) and index.
Contents 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.
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Subject Figures of speech in literature.
Figures of speech in literature.
European literature -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term 1450-1600
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Aufsatzsammlung.
Added Author Adamson, Sylvia.
Alexander, Gavin (English professor)
Ettenhuber, Katrin.
Other Form: Print version: Renaissance figures of speech 9780521866408 (OCoLC)326805653
ISBN 9781107784383 (electronic book)
1107784387 (electronic book)
9780521866408
0521866405