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The Ridiculous to the Delightful : Comic Characters in Sidney's New Arcadia
Overview
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.
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- ISBN-13: 9780674768901
- ISBN-10: 0674768906
- Publisher: Harvard University Press
- Publish Date: January 1974
- Dimensions: 7.27 x 5.37 x 0.2 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.15 pounds
- Page Count: 64
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