Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1977

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

Collins, Robert A.

Abstract

This thesis examines several aspects of Thomas Lodge's Rosalind, including the structure of the work, its style, and the parodies of courtly love and petrarchism which it contains. Analysis reveals a triadic structure which develops patterns of three similar and related events, actions, relationships , character types, and situations. Within this structure, Lodge has created a parody of courtly love role play, and a parody of petrarchan literary conventions. Each parody supports and promotes the other. Lodge accomplishes this in a style which exaggerates some of the elements of John Lyly's style while disregarding others. The consequence of Lodge's mimicry has been a persistent mislabeling of his style as "euphuistic," and a misleading suggestion that the complex and unique style of Rosalind is mere imitation.

Extent

81 p.

Comments

Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1977.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters

Identifier

FADT13892

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