The Modern Language Review, October 1st, 2006
Thomas Nashe (1567-1600) is famous for his bizarre prose style-full of neologisms and disjointed periods, and run together with all manner of 'high' and 'low' language-racy, eloquent, slangy, and wildly ironical. Much of this stylistic gallimaufry is part of a broader 'dislocatedness', the function of which is often to express a social or intellectual alienation. In The Unfortunate Traveller, his most famous work, Nashe develops this play of style with a new technique-the distortion of sign-functions. This is manifested in his awry chronology, his descriptions of symbolic communication, and ...
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