Hyperboles: The Rhetoric of Excess in Baroque Literature and Thought

by Christopher Johnson

Book Overview

This book offers a detailed, comparatist defense of hyperbole in the Baroque period. Focusing on Spanish and Mexican lyric (G?ngora, Quevedo, and Sor Juana), English drama (King Lear and translations of Seneca), and French philosophy (Descartes and Pascal), Christopher D. Johnson reads Baroque hyperbole as a sophisticated, often sublime, frequently satiric means of making sense of worlds and selves in crisis and transformation. Grounding his...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674053311
• ISBN13: 9780674053311
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Harvard University Department of Comparative
• Length: 695 Pages