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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... style of Mustapha's description and the heroic declamation of Almeyda herself , there is a middle strain that calls upon us to visualize Almeyda in yet another way . Like Dorax's triple - strand speech quoted above , the language of ...
... style of Mustapha's description and the heroic declamation of Almeyda herself , there is a middle strain that calls upon us to visualize Almeyda in yet another way . Like Dorax's triple - strand speech quoted above , the language of ...
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... style is directly anti- thetical in function to the low realistic narrative style . Words have reference not to things but to abstract essences and ideas : “ his Flame aim'd at nothing but Honour " ; her " Soul " would exist eternally ...
... style is directly anti- thetical in function to the low realistic narrative style . Words have reference not to things but to abstract essences and ideas : “ his Flame aim'd at nothing but Honour " ; her " Soul " would exist eternally ...
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... style . It establishes the Idea of heroic greatness that Oroonoko the Prince figures . It is the distant , glittering height from which the tragic hero falls . The narrative of Surinam is written , for the most part , in the low ...
... style . It establishes the Idea of heroic greatness that Oroonoko the Prince figures . It is the distant , glittering height from which the tragic hero falls . The narrative of Surinam is written , for the most part , in the low ...
Contents
Preface | 9 |
Poetical Injustice in Some Neglected Masterpieces | 23 |
The Late SeventeenthCentury Dilemma | 46 |
Copyright | |
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