Apostrophe as Play in Seventeenth-Century Lyric.
This article offers a renewed consideration of the figure of apostrophe in seventeenth-century literature by focusing on a genre in which it is especially prominent: lyric poetry on the Creation. Drawing on Jonathan Culler's account of apostrophe's "effects of presence," it shows that Renaissance po...
| Publicado en: | Modern Philology Vol. 120; no. 4; pp. 444 - 474 |
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