John Donne satirist: metaphor, wit & art

Authors

  • Lavinia Silvares Fiorussi USP

Keywords:

Satiric genre. John Donne. 17th century poetry

Abstract

This essay focuses on the metaphors of John Donne’s satires, and on the witty effect they produce. Consider-ing the genre of the compositions, this text alsoapproaches the historical criteria that determined the decorum and the verisimilitude of 17th century satire, pointing out that diverse types of metaphors could be appropriate and common in this genre. Analyzing selected verses of Donne’s satires, it is possible to note the witty and technical use the poet makes of the places of invention previously authorized for the satiric genre, and note how he manages to imitate the Latin satirists and, at the same time, diversify the elocution and the witty conceits.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Author Biography

Lavinia Silvares Fiorussi, USP

É doutora pela área de Estudos Linguísticos e Literários em Inglês - Depar­tamento de Letras Modernas, USP, e membro de The International Society for the History of Rhetoric. Atualmente, investiga as variações históricas na concei­tuação de “wit” e as poéticas dos séculos XVI e XVII, como pós-doutoranda FAPESP no Departamento de Letras Clássicas e Vernáculas da USP.

Downloads

Published

2009-06-30

How to Cite

Fiorussi, L. S. (2009). John Donne satirist: metaphor, wit & art. Gragoatá, 14(26). Retrieved from https://periodicos.uff.br/gragoata/article/view/33131

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 26 (2009): Metaphor - the everyday life and the inaugural

Section

Language Articles

License

Authors who publish in Gragoatá agree to the following terms:

The authors retain the rights and give the journal the right to the first publication, simultaneously subject to a Creative Commons license CC-BY-NC 4.0, which allows sharing by third parties with due mention to the author and the first publication by Gragoatá.

Authors may enter into additional and separate contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the published version of the work (for example, posting it in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book), with recognition of its initial publication in Gragoatá.

 

Licença Creative Commons
Gragoatá is licensed under a Creative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International.