Humanist Poetics: Thought, Rhetoric, and Fiction in Sixteenth-Century England

by Arthur F. Kinney

This important contribution to the study of English Renaissance culture redefines the humanist movement, employs humanist rhetoric in new ways, and argues that English fiction in the sixteenth century should be seen as a major genre with its own strategies for the imaginative artist. Arthur F. Kinney argues that the main purpose of Renaissance humanism was the cultivation and perfection of the individual and society by the use of rhetoric--by persuasion...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870234854
• ISBN13: 9780870234859
• Release Date: November 1986
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 548 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.