Translating investments
Subtitle: metaphor and the dynamic of cultural change in Tudor-Stuart England
By: Judith H. Anderson.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
Subjects: English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism; Translating and interpreting -- England -- History -- 16th century; Translating and interpreting -- England -- History -- 17th century; English language -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Rhetoric; Renaissance -- England; Metaphor; England -- Civilization -- 16th century; England -- Civilization -- 17th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Renaissance metaphor and the dynamic of cultural change: an introductory road map; title: Translating investments: the metaphoricity of language: Hamlet, and 2 Henry IV; title: Language and history in the reformation: translating matter to metaphor in the sacrament; title: Donne's tropic awareness: metaphor, metonymy, and devotions upon emergent occasions; title: Vesting significance and authority: the Vestiarian controversy under Cranmer and its treatment by Foxe; title: Busirane's place: the house of abusive rhetoric in the Faerie Queene; title: Catachresis and metaphor: "Be bold, be bold, be not too bold" in the Latin rhetorical tradition and its renaissance adaptors; title: Exchanging values: the economic and rhetorical world seen by Gerrard de Malynes, merchant.