Uncommon Tongues : Eloquence and Eccentricity in the English Renaissance.
Title:
Uncommon Tongues : Eloquence and Eccentricity in the English Renaissance.
Author:
Nicholson, Catherine.
ISBN:
9780812208801
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (225 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Uncommon Tongues -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: Antisocial Orpheus -- Chapter 1. Good Space and Time: Humanist Pedagogy and the Uses of Estrangement -- Chapter 2. The Commonplace and the Far-Fetched: Mapping Eloquence in the English Art of Rhetoric -- Chapter 3. "A World to See": Euphues's Wayward Style -- Chapter 4. Pastoral in Exile: Colin Clout and the Poetics of English Alienation -- Chapter 5. "Conquering Feet": Tamburlaine and the Measure of English -- Coda: Eccentric Shakespeare -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments.
Abstract:
Uncommon Tongues explores the tension between the political value of eloquence and its classical definition in sixteenth-century English literature, locating eccentricity and unfamiliarity at the heart of pedagogical, rhetorical, and literary culture.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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