Hyperboles : The Rhetoric of Excess in Baroque Literature and Thought
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Format
Paperback / softback
Book Series
Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature
ISBN-10
0674053338
ISBN-13
9780674053335
Publisher
Department of Comparative Literature
Imprint
Department of Comparative Literature
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 1st, 2010
Print length
695 Pages
Weight
980 grams
Dimensions
23.10 x 15.70 x 3.50 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: general
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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.
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