The grammar and rhetoric of Tudor and Stuart England prioritized words and word-like figures rather than sentences, a prioritizing that had significant consequences for linguistic representation. Examining a wide range of historical sources--treatises, grammars, poems, plays, rhetorics, logics, dictionaries, and sermons--the author investigates how words matter as currency or memento, graphic symbol or template, icon or topos.
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The grammar and rhetoric of Tudor and Stuart England prioritized words and word-like figures rather than sentences, a prioritizing that had significant consequences for linguistic representation. Examining a wide range of historical sources--treatises, grammars, poems, plays, rhetorics, logics, dictionaries, and sermons--the author investigates how words matter as currency or memento, graphic symbol or template, icon or topos.
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Minor rubbing. VG., dustwrapper. 22x14cm, xi, 338 pp. Contents: Frozen Words; Latin & Lexicons; The Definitive Word; Stones Well Squared: Definition in 'The Forrest' & 'The Faerie Queen'; Magic & Metaphor: Tree Rings in the Renaissance Arboretrum; Weighing Words: The Giant's Scales; Donne's Pre-deliberations, or Scaling the Heights; Donne's Final Word or Last Character: Life Lived & Life Written.
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