The Limitations of Narrative: Nashe's Appropriation of Ovidian Decorum in The Unfortunate Traveller

Thomas Nashe's The Unfortunate Traveller indulges in notorious flights of rhetorical excess. In fact the figure with which readers would most readily associate Nashe's tale is dilatio, an important form of Renaissance rhetorical invention or amplification meaning "to stretch out in br...

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Published in:Notes and queries 2005-06, Vol.52 (2), p.182-185
Main Author: Fleck, Andrew
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Narratives
Nash, Thomas (1567-1601)
Poetry
Renaissance period
Rhetoric
Writers
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Summary:Thomas Nashe's The Unfortunate Traveller indulges in notorious flights of rhetorical excess. In fact the figure with which readers would most readily associate Nashe's tale is dilatio, an important form of Renaissance rhetorical invention or amplification meaning "to stretch out in breadth."
ISSN:0029-3970
1471-6941
DOI:10.1093/notesj/gji213