"THE NATURAL PROPENSITY OF IMITATION": or, Pantomimic Poetics and the Rhetoric of Augustan Wit.

Drawing attention to the complex reciprocal relationship between commercialized leisure and commercial literature in the so-called "Age of Wit," this essay reconceives of the witty and witless in two important ways. Taking for granted, first of all, that wit is usually analyzed in terms of the effic...

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Publicado en:Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies Vol. 9; no. 2; pp. 51 - 96
Autor principal: DOMINGO, DARRYL P.
Formato: Essay
Publicado: University of Pennsylvania Press Fall/WInter2009
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