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Invention and Imagination in Sixteenth-Century English Literature

Rocío G. Sumillera

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Cultural StudiesLiteratureLinguistics and LanguageLiterature and Literary TheoryPoetrybusiness.industrymedia_common.quotation_subjectTransition (fiction)ArtLanguage and LinguisticsTerminologyPoeticsEnglish literatureRhetoricSelection (linguistics)Rhetorical questionbusinessmedia_common

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This article discusses the all-important concepts of invention and imagination within the literary terminology of sixteenth-century England, viewing the former as a concept in transition associated with the rhetorical notion of ‘finding’ within a topical system as well as with ideas on the imagination, and connecting the latter with theories on the workings of the human mind. The conceptual discussion revolves around a selection of extracts taken from early modern dictionaries, works on rhetoric, and poetics, poems, and plays.

https://doi.org/10.1179/2051285614z.00000000027