Rosenfeld, Colleen Ruth
Indecorous Thinking
- ISBN 13:
- 9780823277926
- author:
- Rosenfeld, Colleen Ruth
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2018
- Pages:
- 312
- Dimensions:
- 22.86 x 15.24 x 2.03 centimetres
- Genre:
- Nonfiction, Education, History,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Indecorous Thinking: A Study of Artifice in Early Modern Poetics By Colleen Ruth Rosenfeld Fordham University Press, 2018 This study explores the role of artifice in early modern literature, arguing that figures of speech such as simile and periphrasis were used to develop a unique kind of thinking. The classical ideal of decorum, which valued simplicity and spontaneity in rhetoric, is challenged by Rosenfeld, who contends that the display of ornamentation was actually a celebration of poetry's craft. Rosenfeld examines the work of writers such as Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, and Mary Wroth, alongside pedagogical debates of the period and the emergence of empiricism. She offers a nuanced account of the triumphs and limitations of artifice in early modern literature, drawing on insights from rhetoric, dialectic, and poetics. By reexamining the relationship between form and knowledge, Rosenfeld defends the epistemological value of poetic form as a source of particular kinds of understanding.
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