Indecorous Thinking: Figures of Speech in Early Modern Poetics
ISBN: 9780823277940
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Fordham University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Language & Literature ; Education;

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.

Rosenfeld Colleen Ruth :

Colleen Ruth Rosenfeld is Associate Professor of English at Pomona College.Colleen Ruth Rosenfeld is Associate Professor of English at Pomona College.


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