Title Indecorous thinking : figures of speech in early modern poetics / Colleen Ruth Rosenfeld

Published New York : Fordham University Press, [2018] ©2018

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Description 1 online resource 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 Analysis Decorum Edmund Spenser Eloquence Epistemology Figures of Speech Form Mary Wroth Philip Sidney Style rhetoric Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 2, 2017) Subject English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism Figures of speech in literature. Figures of speech -- Early works to 1800 English language -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Rhetoric POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. English language -- Early modern -- Rhetoric English poetry -- Early modern Figures of speech Figures of speech in literature Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. Early works Form Electronic book ISBN 9780823277940 0823277941

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