Hyperboles: The Rhetoric of Excess in Baroque Literature and Thought by Christopher D. Johnson
Hyperboles: The Rhetoric of Excess in Baroque Literature and Thought
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Christopher D. Johnson
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Hyperboles: The Rhetoric of Excess in Baroque Literature and Thought

Christopher D. Johnson

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This book offers a detailed, comparatist defense of hyperbole in the Baroque period. Focusing on Spanish and Mexican lyric (Góngora, Quevedo, and Sor Juana), English drama (King Lear and translations of Seneca), and French philosophy (Descartes an...

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