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Humanism and style : essays on Erasmus and More
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Clarence Miller''s Humanism and Style: Essays on Erasmus and Thomas More provides an illuminating and circumstantial engagement with the word of two great humanists. Miller''s essays cover a comple...
Clarence Miller''s Humanism and Style: Essays on Erasmus and Thomas More provides an illuminating and circumstantial engagement with the word of two great humanists. Miller''s essays cover a complex terrain that includes the rhetorical functions of stylistic shifts, the deployment of proverbial wisdom, engagement with ancient texts in an early modern setting, and the challenges of maintaining a stance of faith in a world always muddied in its history.
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- Creator
- Clarence H. Miller ; with an introduction by Jerry Harp
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- Lanham, Maryland ; Plymouth, England : Lehigh University Press, 2011
- ©2011
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (151 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9781611460070, 1611460077, 132206475X, 1611460069
- OCLC
- ocn888746454
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- Humanism &Style ; Contents; Introduction; 1. Styles and Mixed Genres in Erasmus's The Praise of Folly; 2. Some Medieval Elements and Structural Unity in Erasmus's The Praise of Folly; 3. The Liturgical and Historical Context of Erasmus's Hymns; 4. The Logic and Rhetoric of Proverbs in Erasmus's The Praise of Folly; 5. The Epigrams of More and Erasmus: A Literary Diptych; 6. Style and Meaning in More's Utopia: Hythloday's Sentences and Diction; 7. More's Use of Patristic Evidence in the Eucharistic Controversy; 8. The Heart of the Final Struggle: More's Commentary on The Agony in the Garden
- 9. Thomas More, a Man for All Seasons: Robert Bolt's Play and the Elizabethan Play of Sir Thomas More10. Extraordinary Friends; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Subjects
- Humanism in literature.
- Humanism -- Netherlands -- History -- 16th century.
- Humanism -- England -- History -- 16th century.
- Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536 -- Literary style.
- More, Thomas, Saint, 1478-1535 -- Literary style.
- Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536 -- Philosophy.
- More, Thomas, Saint, 1478-1535 -- Philosophy.