Name: Ridiculous to the Delightful Comic Characters in Sidney's New Arcadia
Author: Reeves, Robert N.
ISBN: 9780674768901

by Reeves, Robert N.

Ridiculous to the Delightful Comic Characters in Sidney's New Arcadia

by Reeves, Robert N.

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ISBN-13: 9780674768901
ISBN: 0674768906
Publisher: Harvard University Press

AUTHOR

Reeves, Robert N.

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The style of the Arcadia is simultaneously a prime source of humor and a major hindrance to its enjoyment. The immense length of this book requires that the reader take constant care to distinguish the variations in Sidney's style; as Milton advised, it is not 'to be read at any time without good caution.' The Arcadian prose is brimming with decorative and rhetorical devices--metaphor, parenthesis, antithesis. - from the book.Reeves, Robert N. is the author of 'Ridiculous to the Delightful Comic Characters in Sidney's New Arcadia' with ISBN 9780674768901 and ISBN 0674768906.

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