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Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit / ˈ j uː f j uː iː z /, a didactic romance written by John Lyly, was entered in the Stationers' Register 2 December 1578 and published that same year. It was followed by Euphues and his England , registered on 25 July 1579, but not published until Spring of 1580.
Euphuism is a peculiar mannered style of English prose. It takes its name from a prose romance by John Lyly. It consists of a preciously ornate and sophisticated style, employing a deliberate excess of literary devices such as antitheses, alliterations, repetitions and rhetorical questions.
Trama: Euphues (il bennato) è un giovane ateniese (s'intenda, uno studente di Oxford) che si reca a Napoli (s'intenda Londra), ove si lascia corrompere dalla licenza della grande città, ruba a un amico l'affetto d'una donna, è a sua volta tradito da questa, e ritorna infine disgustato ad Atene.
Euphues is famous for its peculiar style, to which it has given the name ‘Euphuism’. Its principal characteristics are the excessive use of antithesis, which is pursued regardless of sense, and emphasized by alliteration and other devices; and of allusions to historical and mythological personages and to natural history drawn from such ...
eufuismo. sm. Stile manieristico dell'Inghilterra elisabettiana, che prende il nome da Euphues, l'eroe dei due romanzi di J. Lyly, Euphues or the Anatomy of Wit (1578; Euphues o l'anatomia dell'ingegno) ed Euphues and His England (1580; Euphues e la sua Inghilterra). Matrice unica il concettismo, l'eufuismo diventa il parallelo inglese del ...
place in English literature. In English literature: Prose styles, 1550–1600. …was established by John Lyly’s Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578), which, with its sequel Euphues and His England (1580), set a fashion for an extreme rhetorical mannerism that came to be known as euphuism.
5 set 2023 · Last Updated September 5, 2023. John Lyly's Eupheus: An Anatomy of Wit was an extraordinarily fashionable prose comedy that gave shape to the Elizabethan style of the 1580s. From this work, we...
