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

Author/creator Anderson, Judith H.
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Fordham University Press, 2005.
Descriptionxi, 324 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects
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.

Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 289-309) and index.
LCCN 2005001889
ISBN082322421X

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