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Archive | 2007

Renaissance figures of speech

Sylvia Adamson; Gavin Alexander; Katrin Ettenhuber

Introduction: the figures in Renaissance theory and practice Sylvia Adamson, Gavin Alexander and Katrin Ettenhuber 1. Synonymia: or, in other words Sylvia Adamson 2. Compar or Parison: measure for measure Russ McDonald 3. Periodos: squaring the circle Janel Mueller 4. Puns: serious wordplay Sophie Read 5. Prosopopoeia: the speaking figure Gavin Alexander 6. Ekphrasis: painting in words Claire Preston 7. Hysteron proteron, or the preposterous Patricia Parker 8. Paradiastole: redescribing the vices as virtues Quentin Skinner 9. Syncrisis: the figure of contestation Ian Donaldson 10. Testimony: the artless proof R. W. Serjeantson 11. Hyperbole: exceeding similitude Katrin Ettenhuber 12. Metalepsis: the boundaries of metaphor Brian Cummings 13. The vices of style William Poole.


Archive | 2000

A lovely little example: Word order options and category shift in the premodifying string

Sylvia Adamson


Transactions of the Philological Society | 1994

FROM EMPATHETIC DEIXIS TO EMPATHETIC NARRATIVE: STYLISATION AND (DE‐)SUBJECTIVISATION AS PROCESSES OF LANGUAGE CHANGE

Sylvia Adamson


Archive | 1990

Papers from the 5th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics

Sylvia Adamson; Vivien A. Law; Nigel Vincent; Susan Wright


Archive | 2001

Reading Shakespeare's dramatic language : a guide

Sylvia Adamson


Archive | 2007

Paradiastole: redescribing the vices as virtues

Quentin Skinner; Sylvia Adamson; Gavin Alexander; Katrin Ettenhuber


Archive | 2007

Prosopopoeia: the speaking figure

Gavin Alexander; Sylvia Adamson; Katrin Ettenhuber


Archive | 2007

Hyperbole: exceeding similitude

Katrin Ettenhuber; Sylvia Adamson; Gavin Alexander


Archive | 2007

Ekphrasis: painting in words

Claire Preston; Sylvia Adamson; Gavin Alexander; Katrin Ettenhuber


Archive | 2000

A lovely little example

Sylvia Adamson

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Alan Durant

University of Strathclyde

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Claire Preston

Queen Mary University of London

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