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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... nature " was understood ( Zimbardo 1986 ) . The course of development in England between 1660 and 1732 is a transition that runs from imitation of nature as idea ( heroic ) , through imitation of the interplay between ideational and ...
... nature " was understood ( Zimbardo 1986 ) . The course of development in England between 1660 and 1732 is a transition that runs from imitation of nature as idea ( heroic ) , through imitation of the interplay between ideational and ...
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... natural and or- dained limits that have brought both the kingship and the kingdom to its time of crisis . David's ... nature of rebellion , the king predicts his enemies will turn on themselves like vipers : Against themselves their ...
... natural and or- dained limits that have brought both the kingship and the kingdom to its time of crisis . David's ... nature of rebellion , the king predicts his enemies will turn on themselves like vipers : Against themselves their ...
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... Nature of Things . ' " " " The essential claim of most of the rest of Addison's essay , where he appropriates Locke's dichotomy between wit and judgment into his own between two kinds of wit , is that true wit is true . The point is ...
... Nature of Things . ' " " " The essential claim of most of the rest of Addison's essay , where he appropriates Locke's dichotomy between wit and judgment into his own between two kinds of wit , is that true wit is true . The point is ...
Contents
Preface | 9 |
Poetical Injustice in Some Neglected Masterpieces | 23 |
The Late SeventeenthCentury Dilemma | 46 |
Copyright | |
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