Reformation Lists: Syntax, the Sacred, and the Production of Junk.
- Author / Editor
- Simpson, James.
Reformation Lists: Syntax, the Sacred, and the Production of Junk.
- Published
- Eva von Contzen and James Simpson, eds. Enlistment: Lists in Medieval and Early Modern Literature (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2022), pp. 195-212.
- Description
- Assesses the syntax and rhetorical/literary functions of the "open-ended list that forms part of a sentence," focusing on those composed during the "cultural revolution" at the beginning of the Reformation in sixteenth-century England, but framed by discussion of syntactical contrasts between apposition in the list in House of Rumour in HF 1951-76 and hypotaxis in the opening of Milton’s "Paradise Lost" 1.1-10.
- Alternative Title
- Enlistment: Lists in Medieval and Early Modern Literature
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification
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