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Elizabethan and metaphysical imagery : Renaissance poetic and twentieth-century critics
Title
Elizabethan and metaphysical imagery : Renaissance poetic and twentieth-century critics / by Rosemond Tuve.
ISBN
0226818195
9780226818191
Edition
1st Phoenix ed.
Published
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1961, c1947.
Physical Description
xii, 436 p. ; 21 cm.
Local Notes
BEIN Tanselle Z44 0048: Paperbound. Autograph of G. Thomas Tanselle.
Notes
"[First] published 1947"--Title p. verso.
Winner of the Rosemary Crawshay Award from the British Academy
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 26, 2016
Series
Phoenix books ; P68
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-430) and index.
Contents
Part I: Sensuousness and significancy as functions of images
The problem and what it involves
'Imitation' and images
'Ut pictura poesis' and functional sensuous imagery
The'garment' of style and functional sensuous imagery
The criterion of sensuous vividness
The criterion of delightfulness
The criterion of significancy
The criterion of rhetorical efficacy
The criterion of decorum
Part II: The logical functions of imagery
Images logically defined
Renaissance logic and the framing of renaissance images
Ramist logic: certain general conceptions affecting imagery
Effects of specific logical functions upon the poetic character of images
Images and a redefined didactic theory.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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University of Chicago. Press, publisher.
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