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Editor:JOHN D.JUMP  \n4The Conceit  \nThe Conceit/K.K.Ruzhven  \nMethuen &Co Ltd  \nFirst published z969by Methuen &Co Ltd  \nzz New Fetter Lane London EC₄◎ 1969 K.K.RuthvenPrinted in Great Britainby Cox&Wyman Ltd Fakenham Norfolk  \nSBN 41615730 o HardbackSBN 416157408 Paperback  \nThis is available in both hardback and paperbackeditions.The paperback edition is sold subject to thecondition that it shall not,by way of trade orotherwise,be lent re-sold,hired out,or otherwisecirculated without the publisher's prior consent inany form other than that in which it is publishedand without a similar condition being imposed onthe subsequent purchaser.  \nDistributed in the U.S.A.by Barnes &Noble Inc.  \nTo SIMON and GUYdisturbers of the piece  \nContents  \nGENERAL EDITOR's PREFACEpage viii  \nI THE WORD‘CONCEIT'I  \n2 THE THEORETICAL BASIS OF CONCEITS  \n5  \nOrnament or Insight?'Discordia Concors'  \nThe Poetic of CorrespondenceThe Far-Fetched  \n3 SOME COMMON TYPES OF CONCEITI7Sonneteering ConceitsHeraldic ConceitsEmblematic ConceitsEtymological ConceitsTypological Conceits'Concetti Predicabili'The Clevelandism  \n4 THE DECLINE OF THE CONCEIT  \n52  \n6I67  \nBIBLIOGRAPHY  \nINDEX  \n## General Editor's Preface\n\nThis volume is one of a series of short studies,each dealing with asingle key item,or a group of two or three key items,in ourcritical vocabulary.The purpose of the series differs from thatserved by the standard glossaries of literary terms.Many terms areadequately defined for the needs of students by the brief entries inthese glossaries,and such terms will not be the subjects of studiesin the present series.But there are other terms which cannot bemade familiar by means of compact definitions.Students need togrow accustomed to them through simple and straightforward butreasonably full discussions of them.The purpose of the presentseries is to provide such discussions.  \nSome of the terms in question refer to literary movements(e.g.'Romanticism’,'Aestheticism’,etc.),others to literary kinds(e.g.'Comedy’,Epic',etc.),and still others to stylistic features(e.g.Irony’,\"The Conceit’,etc.).Because of this diversity of subject-matter,no attempt has been made to impose a uniform patternupon the studies.But all authors have tried to provide as fullillustrative quotation as possible,to make reference wheneverappropriate to more than one literature,in more than a singlelanguage,and to compose their studies in such a way as to guidereaders towards the short bibliographies in which they have madesuggestions for further reading.  \nJohn D.Jump  \nUniversity of Manchester","cbCaic6j4PY6gx1P","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaic6j4PY6gx1P","pdf",3763906,84,"English","# General Editor's Preface\n# The Word \"CONCEIT\"\n# The Theoretical Basis of Conceits\n# Some Common Types of Conceits\n# The Decline of the Conceit\n# Bibliography\n# Index","[{\"question\":\"What does the series’ preface say about how this study is 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