Hyperboles : the rhetoric of excess in Baroque literature and thought

Hyperboles the rhetoric of excess in Baroque literature and thought

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1. Verfasser: Johnson, Christopher D. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, Mass. u.a. Harvard Univ. Press 2010
Schriftenreihe:Harvard studies in comparative literature 52
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Geschichte 1600-1750 > Baroque literature / History and criticism > Hyperbole in literature > Barock > Literatur > Hyperbel
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Classical theories of hyperbole -- Renaissance theories of hyperbole -- Baroque theories of hyperbole -- Yonder: Spanish baroque hyperboles -- Góngora's art of abundance -- Quevedo's poetics of disillusion -- Exorbitant desires: Sor Juana's Sueño -- A dream deferred: the overreacher's conscience -- Staging hyperbole, skepticism, and stoicism -- Going baroque in Shakespearean drama -- Saying the "worst" in Lear -- Fabulous discourse: Descartes and hyperbole -- Hyperbole and Descartes's will to reason -- Between rhetoric and geometry: Pascal's negative hyperbolics -- Disproportion and taste: measuring the "little cell" -- Critique of hyperbolic reason
Beschreibung:695 S.
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ISBN:9780674053311
978-0-674-05331-1
9780674053335
978-0-674-05333-5