Dictionary of literary - rhetorical conventions of the English Renaissance.

Westport, London, Greenwood Press cm.15,5x23, pp.XVI,268, legatura editoriale in tutta tela. The Dictionary of Literary-Rhetorical Conventions is an unusual reference in that it is also an anthology of critical of critical essays. It contains 68 entries, ranging from acrostic' to vulgar language, ' and from one paragraph to ten pages, defining literary terms (genres, verse forms, and other verbal conventions) as they were used in the Renaissance. . . . The The research evidenced in these historical essays is substantial. . . . There are two useful appendices. The first lists modern literary terms matched with relevant essays on Renaissance terms. . . . The second appendix provides a useful list of categories for the particular terms under consideration. . . . The index is meticulous and detailed, with ample cross-referencing and careful subdivisions of topics. . . . The Dictionary can be of both use and delight to the researcher in Renaissance literature. Accurate and thorough in its scholarship, lucid and concrete in its style, it is one of those rare reference works that can be actually read, not merely referred to.…