The Fine Delight That Fathers Thought: Rhetoric and Medievalism in Gerard Manley Hopkins

By Franco Marucci

This revised and updated edition of Franco Marucci's I fogli della Sibilla: Retorica e medievalismo in Gerard Manley Hopkins (1981) was conceived and written in the wake of two innovative and seminal approaches to the literary text that came into prominence during the 1970s. The first is that of the new rhetoric, which superseded the old-fashioned taxonomic methods of description, and put forward the possibility of a functional integration of rhetoric within the complexity of the literary text. The second approach is that of cultural typology, as carried out by the Tartu school and its most oustanding exponent, Jurij Lotman.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813207789
• ISBN13: 9780813207780
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Catholic Univ of Amer Pr
• Length: 267 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.8" x 5.8"