Outlaw rhetoric figuring vernacular eloquence in Shakespeare's England

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ISBN: 0801449650 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780801449659 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780801464102 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0801464102 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 249 p.) ill.
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Publisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012

General Note:	CatMonthString:february.14 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction : a tale of Robin Hood -- Common rhetoric : planting figures of speech in the English shire -- The trespasser : displacing Virgilian figures in Spenser's Faerie queene -- The insertour : putting the parenthesis in Sidney's Arcadia -- The changeling : mingling heroes and hobgoblins in Shakespeare's A midsummer night's dream -- The figure of exchange : gender exchange in Shakespeare's Sonnet 20 and Jonson's Epicoene -- The mingle-mangle : the hodgepodge of fancy and philosophy in Cavendish's Blazing world -- Conclusion : "words made visible" and the turn against rhetoric -- Appendix of English rhetorical manuals.
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