10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EUPHUISTIC»
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euphuistic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
euphuistic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Workings of Fiction: Essays
In style Johnson is remarkably euphuistic — a fact that will be more or less
striking in accordance with a reader's expectations or prior reading. If one comes
to him from such Augustans as Addison and Steele and Swift, Johnson seems ...
Robert Bechtold Heilman, 1991
Lord Berners' sentences," Mr Lee writes, " are euphuistic beyond all question;
they are characterized by the forced antitheses, alliteration, and the far-fetched
illustrations from natural phenomena, peculiar to Lyly and his successors'.
3
Spenser's International Style
83 See Janel M. Mueller, The Native Tongue and the Word: Developments in
English Prose Style 1380—1580 (University of Chicago Press, 1984), chs. 5—6.
84 See Scaglione, Classical Theory, pp. IOWj; and esp. Croll, “Euphuistic
Rhetoric.
David Scott Wilson-Okamura, 2013
4
Persona and Decorum in Milton's Prose
Euphuistic prose — its charac- terics of parason, paramoion, isocolon, chiasmus
— abounds in this political tract, though the politics become obfuscated by the
rhetoric of repetition, or as Croll and Clemmons might term it, "sound- design":
Nor ...
5
The Language of Journalism: Media Warfare
Euphuistic. Euphoria. Robert Burton shared the hopes, doubts, and
disenchantments of this first great intellectual class that created the Western
words and mental patterns which we, four and five centuries later, still sense as
the obsessive ...
6
Tudor England: An Encyclopedia
In its contemporary context, the euphuistic style seems to enact the adroitness of
wit exiled from wisdom, and euphuistic verbal dexterity suggests the intellect's
employment of knowledge and experience in the service of self-love and ...
Arthur F Kinney, Thomas W Copeland Professor of Literary History and Director of the Center for Renaissance Studies Arthur F Kinney, David W Swain, 2000
7
Framing Elizabethan Fictions: Contemporary Approaches to ...
Some twenty years later, in 1598, the euphuistic premise comes full circle with
John Dickenson's Greene in Conceit, wherein the fair Valeria plays the part of a
female Euphues more witty than wise who undergoes a female prodigal tragedy
...
Constance Caroline Relihan, 1996
8
A Brief History of Chinese Fiction
Then an endeavour was made to write a novel in the euphuistic style, consisting
of a string of parallelisms. This was Chen Chiu's A Tale of Yenshan in eight
books. Chen Chiu was a licentiate of Hsiushui, a poor man whose profession
was ...
9
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare
But for all this celebrated self-indulgence, Greene was a prolific writer who
achieved success in various genres, from his euphuistic novels to imitations of
Greek romances, Menaphon and Pandosto, from his dramatic adaptation of
Ariosto's ...
Michael Dobson, Stanley W. Wells, 2001
10
The Oxford Handbook of English Prose 1500-1640
In what appears to be her final speech, she creatively adapts the standard
euphuistic love complaint in a flurry of alliteration: 'Shall it onely be lawfull
amongst vs in the prime of youth, and pride of beautie, to destroy both youth and
beautie: and ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EUPHUISTIC»
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euphuistic is used in the context of the following news items.
Grown-Up Spelling Bee combines comic commentary and riotous …
(The definition of "euphuistic" is "an affectedly elegant literary style of the late 1500s and early 1600s, characterized by elaborate alliteration, ... «CultureMap Houston, Feb 15»
Censors and sensibility
... they also ensured that no well-placed aristocrats received unwelcome attention and that compliments to the king were sufficiently euphuistic. «The Australian Financial Review, Jan 15»
'Love's Labour's Lost'/'Love's Labour's Won', Stratford-upon-Avon …
It contains scarcely a line that is not patterned in a formal euphuistic style, and its verse is anything but blank, with rhymes and metres all over ... «Financial Times, Oct 14»
iPhone 6: Most exquisite MOBILE? No. It is the Most Exquisite …
... about because I am a technology guru, so hugely successful, improve it with their euphuistic pleonasm implementations which will permit you ... «Register, Sep 14»
Sketch: Michael Gove suffers in silence
The cruelty of it. Imagine all the sumptuous retorts, the euphuistic rebuffs, the ingenious disparagements teeming in Mr Gove's brain – never to ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 14»
High on My List of Best Book Reviews...
... waste of time and vexation of mind which his blunders create are apt to be set down to his account in no pleasant spirit or euphuistic terms. «National Review Online, May 14»
Why these are the 'Ten Best Sentences'
Long gone from our diction is the “euphuistic” style of long intricately balanced sentences that showed off the brilliance of the writer, but asked ... «Poynter.org, Mar 14»
Holiday wine gems hit November shelves
So I've made this list, checked it twice and formulated plenteous if euphuistic tasting notes on 10 meaningful and expensive wines to look for ... «Canada.com, Nov 13»
War and the Global Economic Crisis: Collapse of the American …
It always gets us when these acceptable writers use soft or euphuistic phrases to describe creeping national state socialism. The big picture is ... «Center for Research on Globalization, May 11»
The Good Book's Great Prose Lessons
That decision was also in keeping with the Hebrew, but it was a sharp turn away from the fad of "euphuistic" or ornate, purple prose that thrived ... «Wall Street Journal, Mar 11»
