Kinney, Arthur F., 1933-

Humanist poetics : thought, rhetoric, and fiction in sixteenth-century England / Arthur F. Kinney. - Amherst [Mass.] : University of Massachusetts Press, 1986. - 1 online resource (xiii, 529 pages)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 455-508) and index.

In principio erat verbum: the fashioning of a humanistic poetics -- The poetics of wordplay: Encomium sapientiae: Thomas Moore and Utopia -- Aliquid salis: narrative wordplay and Gascoigne's Adventures of Master F.J. -- The poetics of eloquence: "Singuler eloquence and braue composition": John Lyly, Euphues, and its sequel -- Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit vtile dulci: Robert Greene's fiction of wonder -- Primus inter pares: Sir Philip Sidney, the Arcadia, and the poetic uses of philosophy -- The poetics of doubt and despair: "Gallant young Iuuenall': Thomas Nashe and the revival of the second sophistic -- O vita! misero longa, foelici brevis: Thomas Lodge's struggle for felicity -- L'infinito vniuerso et mondi: the development of a posthumanist poetics. Introduction: 1. 2. 3. Conclusion:

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English fiction--History and criticism.--Early modern, 1500-1700
Humanism in literature.
Rhetoric, Renaissance.
Humanists--England.
Renaissance--Great Britain.
Humanism--Great Britain.
Roman anglais--Histoire et critique.--16e si�ecle
Humanistes--Angleterre.
Rh�etorique--Histoire--16e si�ecle.
Humanisme dans la litt�erature.
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English fiction--Early modern.
Humanism in literature.
Humanists.
Intellectual life.
Rhetoric, Renaissance.
English.
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English Literature.


England--Intellectual life--16th century.
Angleterre--Vie intellectuelle--16e si�ecle.
England.


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