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Cotterill, Anne

Digressive Voices in Early Modern English Literature.

New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.,

48,00 €

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(Berlin, Germania)

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ISBN
9780199261178
Autore
Cotterill, Anne
Editori
New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Formato
VIII; 341 p. Original Cloth with Dustjacket.
Sovracoperta
No
Lingue
Inglese
Copia autografata
No
Prima edizione
No

Descrizione

From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Minimal abrasion on the dust jacket. Very good and clean. - To digress in seventeenth-century England carried a range of meaning associated with deviation or departure. Anne Cotterill looks afresh at major nondramatic texts by Donne, Marvell, Browne, Milton, and Dryden, whose digressive speakers are haunted by personal and public uncertainty. She demonstrates that early modern writers trained in verbal contest developed richly labyrinthine voices that captured the ambiguities of political occasion and aristocratic patronage, while anatomizing enemies and mourning personal loss. Turning current sensitivity toward the silenced voice in a new direction, Cotterill argues that rhetorical amplitude might suggest anxieties about speech and attack for men forced to be competitive yet circumspect as they made their voices heard. ISBN 9780199261178