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The establishment of modern English prose in the Reformation and the Enlightenment / Robinson, Ian
Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1998Description: 218 pagesContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780521480888
- 0521480884
- English prose literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism
- English prose literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
- English prose literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism
- English language -- Great Britain -- Rhetoric
- English language -- Great Britain -- Style
- History and criticism
- English prose literature
- English language
- 828.08 ROB 23
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Barcode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Books | Anna Centenary Library | 828.08 ROB (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 239996 |
In The Establishment of Modern English Prose in the Reformation and the Enlightenment, Ian Robinson traces the legacy of prose writing as an art form that was theorised in a manner quite distinct from verse. Robinson argues that the sentence is a stylistic as well as a grammatical conception. Engaging with the work of the great prose writers in English, Robinson provides a bold reappraisal of this literary form, combining literary criticism with linguistic and textual analysis.He shows that the formal construct of the sentence itself is historically conditioned and no older than the post-medieval world. The relationship between rhetorical style and literary meaning, Robinson argues, is at the heart of the way we understand the external world.
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