Indecorous Thinking: Figures of Speech in Early Modern Poetics

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.

Author: Colleen Ruth Rosenfeld
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 01/02/2018
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780823277926

About the Author
Rosenfeld, Colleen Ruth: - Colleen Ruth Rosenfeld is Associate Professor of English at Pomona College.