Despite Praise: Techniques of Paradoxology and Paradoxography in the Work of Kyriakos Charalambides

Abstract

Critics have often said that Kyriakos Charalambides’ poetry is hard and challenging even for the most cultivated and well-read reader. The author of the article examines the techniques of rhetoric style with which the poet orchestrates his inspirations: parentheses, stereotypical, corrective and introductory phrases, innuendoes, direct and indirect questions, comic scenes, etc.