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1 online resource |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Prelude : on reading rhetorically -- Acknowledgments -- "Resistless eloquence" -- Hamlet's sorcery -- "Scourge" or "minister" -- The Donnean doubting-game -- Love's atheist : reading Donne's "Communitie" -- "The token" among Donne's songs and sonnets -- "Outward preaching" vs. "inward persuasion" -- The Protestant allegory of "Lycidas" -- Milton's "rhetoric of certitude" -- Postlude : from "enthusiasm" to enlightenment. |
| Summary |
Redescribing renaissance literature as a battleground of competing "theologies of language," Baumlin reads Shakespeare's Hamlet, Donne's Songs and Sonets, and Milton's "Lycidas" within a revisionist history of rhetoric: these works, Baumlin argues, mark stages in the Weberian Entzauberung or "disenchantment" of literature, as they move from the word-magic of medieval Catholicism to a puritan-reformed "rhetoric of. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Language.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. |
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Literary style.
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Literary style. |
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Donne, John, 1572-1631 -- Language.
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Donne, John, 1572-1631. |
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Donne, John, 1572-1631 -- Literary style.
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Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Language.
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Milton, John, 1608-1674. |
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Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Literary style.
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English language -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Rhetoric.
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English language -- Early modern -- Rhetoric. |
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English language -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Style.
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English language -- Early modern -- Style. |
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Rhetoric, Renaissance.
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Rhetoric, Renaissance. |
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Theology in literature.
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Theology in literature. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781282134003 (DLC) 2012013837 |
| ISBN |
0739169602 |
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9780739169605 |
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9781282134003 (MyiLibrary) |
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1282134000 (MyiLibrary) |
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9780739169612 (electronic book) |
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0739169610 (electronic book) |
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