TY - BOOK AU - Canning,Patricia TI - Style in the Renaissance: language and ideology in early modern England T2 - Advances in stylistics SN - 9781441183811 AV - PR421 U1 - 820.9/003 23 PY - 2012/// CY - London PB - Continuum International Pub. KW - English literature KW - Early modern, 1500-1700 KW - History and criticism KW - Literary style KW - Early works to 1800 KW - Renaissance KW - England KW - Style littéraire KW - Ouvrages avant 1800 KW - Angleterre KW - Semantics, discourse analysis, etc KW - bicssc KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - European KW - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh KW - bisacsh KW - Early modern KW - fast KW - Electronic books KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - Early works N1 - Includes bibliographical references; Acknowledgements; Introduction: In the Beginning was the Word; Chapter 1: Constructing Plausible Stories: Ideology, Conceptual Integration Theory and the Politics of Representation in George Herbert's 'JESU'; Chapter 2: 'A Deed Without a Name': Murder and the Linguistics of Agency in Shakespeare's Macbeth; Chapter 3: 'Bit-Part' Actors: Metonymy in Thomas Middleton and William Rowley's The Changeling; Chapter 4: Picturing Words: Ekphrasis and the Word-as-Image in Early Modern Poetry; Chapter 5: Conclusion: 'Being Nothing': The Value of the W/word; Notes; Bibliography; Index N2 - Within the historical literary genre, stylistics is widely applicable but as yet under deployed. This book acts as a showcase for the range of analysis possible. Although the analytic focus within the genre has traditionally been on literary criticism, stylistics has much to offer. Bringing together text and context, Patricia Canning synthesizes stylistic models with literary theory and critical theory. The historical and contextual focus throughout the book is on religious, political and ideological issues that animated and defined Reformation England. Each chapter interrogates the dichotomous UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=457475 ER -