Hyperboles : the rhetoric of excess in Baroque literature and thought /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. ; London :
Harvard University Press,
2010.
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| Series: | Harvard studies in comparative literature ;
52. |
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Table of Contents:
- Classical theories of hyperbole
- Renaissance theories of hyperbole
- Baroque theories of hyperbole
- Yonder: Spanish baroque hyperboles
- Góngora's art of abundance
- Quevedo's poetics of disillusion
- Exorbitant desires: Sor Juana's Sueño
- A dream deferred: the overreacher's conscience
- Staging hyperbole, skepticism, and stoicism
- Going baroque in Shakespearean drama
- Saying the "worst" in Lear
- Fabulous discourse: Descartes and hyperbole
- Hyperbole and Descartes's will to reason
- Between rhetoric and geometry: Pascal's negative hyperbolics
- Disproportion and taste: measuring the "little cell"
- Critique of hyperbolic reason.