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<p>Examples, crucial links between discourse and society's view of reality, have until now been largely neglected in literary criticism. In the first book-length study of the rhetoric of example, John Lyons situates this figure by comparing it with more frequently studied tropes such as metaphor and synecdoche, discusses meanings of the terms example and exemplum, and proposes a set of descriptive concepts for the study of example in early modern literature. Tracing its paradoxical nature back t

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Author

John D. Lyons

Publisher

Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

Published

1989

Language

EN

ISBN

9780691602684

Category

literary studies

Subjects

History, Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction

Updated

2026-03-25