Rhetorics of Order/ordering Rhetorics in English Neoclassical LiteratureJohn Douglas Canfield, J. Paul Hunter University of Delaware Press, 1989 - 200 páginas This collection of essays on the rhetorics of order in English neoclassical literature includes Rose A. Zimbardo's investigation of generic slippage between drama and novel in works by Dryden and Behn; Maynard Mack's analysis of Pope's enduring rhetorics of presentation; and Patricia Meyer Spacks's examination of the heroines of Clarissa and the Italian. |
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... narrative style . Words have reference not to things but to abstract essences and ideas : “ his Flame aim'd at nothing but Honour " ; her " Soul " would exist eternally as an " Idea in his Mind . " We do not hear the character speak ...
... narrative style . Words have reference not to things but to abstract essences and ideas : “ his Flame aim'd at nothing but Honour " ; her " Soul " would exist eternally as an " Idea in his Mind . " We do not hear the character speak ...
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... narrative of Coramantien is written wholly in the high heroic style . It establishes the Idea of heroic greatness that Oroonoko the Prince figures . It is the distant , glittering height from which the tragic hero falls . The narrative ...
... narrative of Coramantien is written wholly in the high heroic style . It establishes the Idea of heroic greatness that Oroonoko the Prince figures . It is the distant , glittering height from which the tragic hero falls . The narrative ...
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... narrative couched in the third person , The Italian does not deeply penetrate its characters ' consciousnesses . Ellena , its heroine , shares with Clarissa only the compulsory beauty and virtue of eigh- teenth - century female ...
... narrative couched in the third person , The Italian does not deeply penetrate its characters ' consciousnesses . Ellena , its heroine , shares with Clarissa only the compulsory beauty and virtue of eigh- teenth - century female ...
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Preface | 9 |
Poetical Injustice in Some Neglected Masterpieces | 23 |
The Late SeventeenthCentury Dilemma | 46 |
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Rhetorics of Order/ordering Rhetorics in English Neoclassical Literature John Douglas Canfield,J. Paul Hunter Vista previa limitada - 1989 |
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