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List of illustrations | p. ix |
List of contributors | p. x |
Preface | p. xiii |
Note on spelling and references | p. xiv |
Introduction: the figures in Renaissance theory and practice | p. 1 |
Synonymia: or, in other words | p. 17 |
Compar or parison: measure for measure | p. 39 |
Periodos: squaring the circle | p. 61 |
Puns: serious wordplay | p. 81 |
Prosopopoeia: the speaking figure | p. 97 |
Ekphrasis: painting in words | p. 115 |
Hysteron proteron: or the preposterous | p. 133 |
Paradiastole: redescribing the vices as virtues | p. 149 |
Syncrisis: the figure of contestation | p. 167 |
Testimony: the artless proof | p. 181 |
Hyperbole: exceeding similitude | p. 197 |
Metalepsis: the boundaries of metaphor | p. 217 |
The vices of style | p. 237 |
Notes | p. 252 |
Suggestions for further reading | p. 291 |
Index | p. 295 |
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