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This book offers a detailed, comparatist defense of hyperbole in the Baroque period. Focusing on Spanish and Mexican lyric, English drama, and French philosophy, Christopher Johnson reads Baroque hyperbole as a sophisticated, often sublime, frequently satiric means of making sense of worlds and selves in crisis and transformation.

Hyperboles

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This book offers a detailed, comparatist defense of hyperbole in the Baroque period. Focusing on Spanish and Mexican lyric, English... Read more

    Publisher: Department of Comparative Literature
    Publication Date: 7/1/2010 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780674053335, 978-0674053335
    ISBN10: 0674053338

    Number of Pages: 695

    Non Fiction , ELT & Literary Studies , Education

    Description

    This book offers a detailed, comparatist defense of hyperbole in the Baroque period. Focusing on Spanish and Mexican lyric, English drama, and French philosophy, Christopher Johnson reads Baroque hyperbole as a sophisticated, often sublime, frequently satiric means of making sense of worlds and selves in crisis and transformation.

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