Uncommon Tongues : Eloquence and Eccentricity in the English Renaissance [1 ed.] 9780812208801, 9780812245585

In the late sixteenth century, as England began to assert its integrity as a nation and English its merit as a literate

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Uncommon Tongues : Eloquence and Eccentricity in the English Renaissance [1 ed.]
9780812208801, 9780812245585

Uncommon Tongues explores the tension between the political value of eloquence and its classical definition in sixteenth

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Favorite Renaissance condiment at "the great feast of language," the epigram is here presented full-flavored a

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The Inarticulate Renaissance explores the conceptual potential of the disabled utterance in the English literary Renaiss

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The appearance of a fourth printing of The Renaissance and English Humanism indicated the scholarly success this book ha

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Witmore examines the ways in which children, with their proverbial capacity for spontaneous imitation and their imaginat

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"What is Canadian cuisine? Lenore Newman distils much of the current thinking into the erudite and elegantly readab

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Sensitive readings of Renaissance texts offer new insights into the perception of imperialism in the sixteenth century.

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Slang is the language of pop culture, low culture, street culture, underground movements and secret societies; depending

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In this interdisciplinary study, Henry Maguire examines the influence of several literary genres and rhetorical techniqu

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