Obscure Language, Unclear Literature : Theory and Practice from Quintilian to the Enlightenment
14: Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 2003. Soft Cover. Text in English. 228 pp. Stained front cover and outside page edges. Light wear. Tight bindind and clean pages.
Obscure Language, Unclear Literature vigorously confronts an intractable problem of literary study: the early attempts to articulate what is conceived as being obscure, unsayable, difficult. Unwilling to accept the ubiquitous explanation of obscurity as a characteristic of modern and postmodern writing only, Mehtonen traces the continuity of theories within the pre-modern formation of literary study in the arts of poetics, rhetoric, grammar and dialectic.
This volume is a theoretically and historically sophisticated attempt to make sense of the connections between critical, stylistic and philosophical debates. It will be welcomed by readers with an interest in literary theory, the history of ideas and concepts, and pre-nineteenth-century study of language. Very Good. Item #4435
ISBN: 9514109112
Price: $50.00