Lyric Wonder : : Rhetoric and Wit in Renaissance English Poetry / / James Biester.
James Biester sees the shift in late Elizabethan England toward a witty, rough, and obscure lyric style—metaphysical wit and strong lines—as a response to the heightened cultural prestige of wonder. That same prestige was demonstrated in the search for strange artifacts and animals to display in the...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019] ©1997 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Rhetoric and Society
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Transcriptions and Citations
- Introduction
- 1. Strange and Admirable Methods
- 2. The Most Dangerous Game: Wonder, Melancholy, 6y and Satire
- 3. Suspicious Boldness
- 4. Powerful Insinuations: Obscurity as Catalyst and Veil
- 5. Passing Wonder or Wonder Passing?
- Bibliography
- Index