Books: Obscure Language, Unclear Literature: Theory and ..., Blenheim in Blenheim, Marlborough for sale

Some creasing to covers.; 228 pages. Page dimensions: 245 x 165mm. Text in English, translated from Finnish by Robert MacGilleon. Suomalaisen Tiedeakatemian Toimituksia Humaniora 320, Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae."This book vigorously confronts an intractable problem of literary study: the early attempts to articulate what is conceived as being obscure, unsayable, difficult: Unwilling to accept the ubiquitous explanation of obscurity as a characteristic of modern and postmodern writing only, Mehtonen traces the continuity of theories within the pre-modern formation of literary study in the arts of poetics, rhetoric, grammar and dialectic. This volume is a theoretically and historically sophisticated attempt to make sense of the connections between critical, stylistic and philosophical debates. It will be welcomed by readers with an interest in literary theory, the history of ideas and concepts, and pre-nineteenth-century study of language."
Books: Obscure Language, Unclear Literature: Theory and Practice from Quintilian to the Enlightenment
Author
Paivi Mehtonen
Title
Obscure Language, Unclear Literature: Theory and Practice from Quintilian to the Enlightenment
Publisher name
Academia Scientiarum Fennica (2003), Helsinki
Shipping time
2 - 5 days
Publication year
2003
Binding type
Soft cover
Listing condition
Used
Item condition
Very good
Vendor name
Renaissance Books
Vendor rating
Topic
Literary Criticism, European, Scandinavianphilosophy, General
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