Hyperboles: The Rhetoric of Excess in Baroque Literature and Thought - Couverture souple

Johnson, Christopher D.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0674053338 ISBN 13 : 9780674053335

Editeur : Department of Comparative Literature, 2010

Synopsis

This book offers a detailed, comparatist defense of hyperbole in the Baroque period. Focusing on Spanish and Mexican lyric ("Gongora", "Quevedo", and "Sor Juana"), English drama ("King Lear" and translations of "Seneca"), and French philosophy ("Descartes" and "Pascal"), Christopher Johnson reads Baroque hyperbole as a sophisticated, often sublime, frequently satiric means of making sense of worlds and selves in crisis and transformation. Grounding his readings of hyperbole in the history of rhetoric and literary imitation, Johnson traces how rhetorical excess acquires specific cultural, political, aesthetic, and epistemological value. Hyperboles also engages more recent critiques of hyperbolic thought (Wittgenstein, Derrida, and Cavell), as it argues that hyperbole is the primary engine of a poetics and metaphysics of immanence.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Christopher D. Johnson is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Department of Comparative Literature
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0674053338
• ISBN 13: 9780674053335
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 695
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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