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. Languages & Literatures. English Literature.