A collection of essays, each tackling a Renaissance figure of speech in literature.

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

"Walter Gibson, dean of Bruegel scholars, has done it again. His new book, like the proverbs it studies, instructs gently yet plainly in compact size. While it

At any time, basic assumptions about language have a direct effect on the writing of history. The structure of language is related to the structure of knowledge

Indecorous Thinking is a study of artifice at its most conspicuous: it argues that early modern writers turned to figures of speech like simile, antithesis, and