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CRITICAL STUDY OF THOMAS LODGE'S "ROSALIND."

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Date Issued:
1977
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This thesis examines several aspects of Thomas Lodge's Rosalind, including the structure of the work, its style, and the parodies of courtly love and petrarchism which it contains. Analysis reveals a triadic structure which develops patterns of three similar and related events, actions, relationships , character types, and situations. Within this structure, Lodge has created a parody of courtly love role play, and a parody of petrarchan literary conventions. Each parody supports and promotes the other. Lodge accomplishes this in a style which exaggerates some of the elements of John Lyly's style while disregarding others. The consequence of Lodge's mimicry has been a persistent mislabeling of his style as "euphuistic," and a misleading suggestion that the complex and unique style of Rosalind is mere imitation.
Title: A CRITICAL STUDY OF THOMAS LODGE'S "ROSALIND.".
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Name(s): HERSH, RICHARD EUGENE.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Collins, Robert A., Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1977
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 81 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: This thesis examines several aspects of Thomas Lodge's Rosalind, including the structure of the work, its style, and the parodies of courtly love and petrarchism which it contains. Analysis reveals a triadic structure which develops patterns of three similar and related events, actions, relationships , character types, and situations. Within this structure, Lodge has created a parody of courtly love role play, and a parody of petrarchan literary conventions. Each parody supports and promotes the other. Lodge accomplishes this in a style which exaggerates some of the elements of John Lyly's style while disregarding others. The consequence of Lodge's mimicry has been a persistent mislabeling of his style as "euphuistic," and a misleading suggestion that the complex and unique style of Rosalind is mere imitation.
Identifier: 13892 (digitool), FADT13892 (IID), fau:10719 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1977.
Subject(s): Lodge, Thomas,--1558?-1625--Rosalynde
Courtly love
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