| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Contents |
Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction : conceptualising archaism -- Within our own memory : old English and the early modern poet -- Chaucer, Gower, and the anxiety of obsolescence -- Archaic style in religious writing: immutability, controversy, prophecy -- Staging generations: archaism and the theatrical past -- Shepherds' speech : archaism and early Stuart pastoral drama -- Archaism and the 'English' epic -- Coda : looking backward, looking forward |
| Summary |
Munro explores the conscious use of archaic language by poets and dramatists including Shakespeare, Spenser, Jonson and Milton |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
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English language -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Style
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English language -- Archaisms.
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English language -- Style.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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English language -- Archaisms
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English language -- Early modern -- Style
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English language -- Style
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English literature -- Early modern
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2013014368 |
| ISBN |
9781461950721 |
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1461950724 |
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9781107337480 |
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1107337488 |
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9781107649842 |
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1107649846 |
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1107461928 |
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9781107461925 |
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1139893580 |
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9781139893589 |
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1107459753 |
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9781107459755 |
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1107472571 |
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9781107472570 |
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1107465427 |
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9781107465428 |
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1107468965 |
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9781107468962 |
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