Hyperboles

The Rhetoric Of Excess In Baroque Literature And Thought

by Christopher D. Johnson
language: english
Publisher: DEPARTMENT OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE, July of 2010 ‧
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This book offers a detailed, comparatist defense of hyperbole in the Baroque period. Focusing on Spanish and Mexican lyric, English drama, and French philosophy, Christopher Johnson reads Baroque hyperbole as a sophisticated, often sublime, frequently satiric means of making sense of worlds and selves in crisis and transformation.

Hyperboles

The Rhetoric Of Excess In Baroque Literature And Thought

by Christopher D. Johnson

Property Description
ISBN: 9780674053335
Publisher: DEPARTMENT OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
Release Date: July of 2010
Language: English
Dimensions: 155 x 234 x 31 mm
Cover: Softcover
Pages: 695
Format: Book
Collection: Harvard Studies In Comparative Literature
Categories: Books in English > Fiction > History of Literature
Books in English > Others
EAN: 9780674053335

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