Hyperboles: the rhetoric of excess in baroque literature and thought
Auteur :
Johnson, Christopher D.
Éditeur :
Department of Comparative Literature
ISBN :
9780674053335
Date de publication :
1 juil. 2010
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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.