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Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit / ˈjuːfjuːiːz /, 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. The name Euphues is derived from Greek ευφυής ...
El Eufuismo (euphuism) es, en literatura inglesa, un estilo altamente elaborado y artificial, ampuloso y afectado, que tomó su nombre del Euphues, the Anatomy of Wit ("Euphues, o la anatomía del ingenio"), de 1578, y su segunda parte, Euphues y su Inglaterra, de 1580, del escritor John Lyly, su principal cultivador, aunque fue seguido en esta ...
publicado en Personajes Por Reseñas de enciclopedias. COMPARTE. Es el protagonista de Euphues, o la anatomía del ingenio (v.), novela de John Lyly (1554?-1606), y de la continuación de la misma Euphues y su Inglaterra. Se trata de un joven ateniense del siglo XVI que, como el Rafael Hythloday de la Utopía (v.) de Sto.
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"Euphues" (εὐφυής) is the Greek for "graceful, witty". John Lyly published the works Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578) and Euphues and his England (1580). Both works illustrated the intellectual fashions and favourite themes of Renaissance society— in a highly artificial and mannered style. The plots are unimportant, existing merely as structural ...
The euphuistic sentence followed principles of balance and antithesis to their extremes, purposely using the latter regardless of sense. John Lyly set up three basic structural principles: 1. phrases of equal length that appear in succession 2. the balance of key verbal elements in successive sentences 3. the correspondence of sounds and syllables,...
Many critics did not appreciate Lyly's deliberate excesses. Philip Sidney and Gabriel Harvey castigated his style, as did Aldous Huxley in his book On the Margin: Notes and Essays, who wrote, "Take away from Lyly his erudition and his passion for antithesis, and you have Mrs. Ros." Lyly's style, however,[clarification needed] influenced Shakespeare...
Euphuism was not particular to Britain, nor a manifestation of some social structure or artistic opportunity unique to that country. There were equivalents in other major European languages, each of which was called by a different name: culteranismo in Spain, Marinismo in Italy, and préciosité in France, for example.
Child, Clarence Griffin (1894). John Lyly and Euphuism. Leipzig: A. Deichert.Gosse, Edmund William (1911). "Euphuism" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 9 (11th ed.). pp. 898–900.Hunt, T.W. (1889). "Euphuism in Literature and Style," New Englander and Yale Review,Vol. L, No. 228, pp. 189–200.Pater, Walter (1885). "Euphuism." In: Marius the Epicurean. London: Macmillan & Co., pp. 94–111.Eufuismo. El. Eufhuismo es un estilo peculiar y amanerado de prosa inglesa. Toma su nombre de un romance en prosa de John Lyly. Consiste en un estilo sofisticado y preciosamente ornamentado, que emplea un exceso deliberado de recursos literarios como antítesis, aliteraciones, repeticiones y preguntas retóricas.
Euphues, o la Anatomía del ingenio, John Lyly. [Euphues, or the Anatomy of Wit]. Novela publicada en 1579; seguida de Euphues y su Inglaterra [Euphues and his England] en 1580. Lyly se inspiró en el Filocolo (v.) de Boccaccio y en los libros de cortesía y amor del XVI italiano: pues la trama del relato es más que nada un pretexto para ...
Euphuism, an elegant Elizabethan literary style marked by excessive use of balance, antithesis, and alliteration and by frequent use of similes drawn from mythology and nature. The word is also used to denote artificial elegance. It was derived from the name of a character in the prose romances.
