Rhetorics of Order/ordering Rhetorics in English Neoclassical LiteratureJohn Douglas Canfield, J. Paul Hunter University of Delaware Press, 1989 - 200 pages 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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... Tristram regards the episode less seriously than his father does , and refuses to specify whatever worries he may have about his own gener- ative syntax . " ' Twas nothing , " Tristram insists , " I did not lose two drops of blood by it ...
... Tristram regards the episode less seriously than his father does , and refuses to specify whatever worries he may have about his own gener- ative syntax . " ' Twas nothing , " Tristram insists , " I did not lose two drops of blood by it ...
Page 182
... Tristram toward disorder and disaster . In Tristram Shandy , destiny sinks under the weight of circumstances or simply falls when counterweights are missing . Outrageous fortune has forged its slings and arrows into clocks , forceps ...
... Tristram toward disorder and disaster . In Tristram Shandy , destiny sinks under the weight of circumstances or simply falls when counterweights are missing . Outrageous fortune has forged its slings and arrows into clocks , forceps ...
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... Tristram , for all his fondness for Yorick , never lets him get physically close to the central action , and Yorick is curiously distant , too , from the novel's sexual ambiguities , an odd exclusion . He is almost too removed . I shall ...
... Tristram , for all his fondness for Yorick , never lets him get physically close to the central action , and Yorick is curiously distant , too , from the novel's sexual ambiguities , an odd exclusion . He is almost too removed . I shall ...
Contents
Preface | 9 |
Poetical Injustice in Some Neglected Masterpieces | 23 |
The Late SeventeenthCentury Dilemma | 46 |
Copyright | |
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