Macaronicism

Synonyms for "macaronicism" (3 found)

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Before quitting this division of macaronicism, we must not forget the amusing specimen given by Molière in the troisième intermede of Le Malade Imaginaire , where Argan the invalid is to be admitted a doctor .

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Klymasz argues that macaronicism is a comic device in The Street Where I Live, but he stops short of discussing the ways Haas uses macaronic humour to undermine the dominance of Anglo-Canadian culture.

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Readers of seventeenth-century Polish texts— from baroque poetry through polemical pamphlets to forensic prose—are used to deciphering Polish-Latin macaronicisms.

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The playfulness of macaronicism may have been another contributory factor: Omnegatherum, that is to say, may be a self-deprecating acknowledgement of the impossibility of the encyclopaedic dream and the inability of any compiler or miscellanist to contain a total body of knowledge within the bounds of a single book.

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