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
• | Publication Date: Jan 02, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 312 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/English language
• | ISBN-10: 0823277925
• | ISBN-13: 9780823277926