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

Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, [2009, 2007] ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 306 pages) : illustrations 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-294) and index Notes Print version record Subject Figures of speech in literature. European literature -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- History and criticism BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary. European literature -- Renaissance Figures of speech in literature Rhetorische Figur Englisch. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Aufsatzsammlung. Form Electronic book Author Adamson, Sylvia Alexander, Gavin (English professor) Ettenhuber, Katrin ISBN 9781107784383 1107784387

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