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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824670403321

Autore

Anderson Judith H

Titolo

Translating investments : metaphor and the dynamic of cultural change in Tudor-Stuart England / / Judith H. Anderson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Fordham University Press, c2005

ISBN

0-8232-4675-2

0-8232-2423-6

1-4294-7885-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (338 p.)

Collana

Transdisciplinary theological colloquia Toward a theology of eros

Disciplina

808/.042/094209031

Soggetti

English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism

Translating and interpreting - England - History - 16th century

Translating and interpreting - England - History - 17th century

English language - Early modern, 1500-1700 - Rhetoric

Renaissance - England

Metaphor

England Civilization 16th century

England Civilization 17th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-309) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Renaissance metaphor and the dynamic of cultural change: an introductory road map -- Translating investments: the metaphoricity of language: Hamlet, and 2 Henry IV -- Language and history in the reformation: translating matter to metaphor in the sacrament -- Donne's tropic awareness: metaphor, metonymy, and devotions upon emergent occasions -- Vesting significance and authority: the Vestiarian controversy under Cranmer and its treatment by Foxe -- Busirane's place: the house of abusive rhetoric in the Faerie Queene -- Catachresis and metaphor: "Be bold, be bold, be not too bold" in the Latin rhetorical tradition and its renaissance adaptors -- Exchanging values: the economic and rhetorical world seen by Gerrard de Malynes, merchant.