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blazon: a standalone construct

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blazon1 CONSTRUCTBlazon (poetry)VICKERS · BLASON

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Literary studies

A poem cataloguing a subject's parts

In literary studies the blazon (French blason) is a poetic form that itemises and praises the parts of a subject (most famously a woman's body, feature by feature), flourishing in Renaissance French and English verse. Vickers's 1981 Diana described: Scattered woman and scattered rhyme analyses how this cataloguing fragments its subject into a list of prized parts. The referent is a rhetorical convention of enumeration in poetry, tied to heraldry only through the shared idea of a formal description, and sometimes answered by the contre-blason that mocks the form.[1]

Unit
The enumerated catalogue of features in the poem
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Identified by its feature-by-feature enumeration and praise

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References

  1. Vickers, N. J. (1981). Diana described: Scattered woman and scattered rhyme. Critical Inquiry, 8(2), 265–279. https://doi.org/10.1086/448154

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