Figuratively Speaking: Rhetoric and Culture from Quintilian to the Twin TowersBloomsbury Academic, 25. 5. 2007 - 160 strán (strany) Although rhetoric is a term often associated with lies, this book takes a polemical look at rhetoric as a purveyor of truth. Its purpose is to focus on one aspect of rhetoric, figurative speech, and to demonstrate how the treatment of figures of speech provides a common denominator among western cultures from Cicero to the present. The central idea is that, in the western tradition, figurative speech - using language to do more than name - provides the fundamental way for language to articulate concerns central to each cultural moment. In this study, Sarah Spence identifies the embedded tropes for four periods in Western culture: Roman antiquity, the High Middle Ages, the Age of Montaigne, and our present, post-9/11 moment. In so doing, she reasserts the fundamental importance of rhetoric, the art of speaking well. |
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... Aristotle expends relatively little energy on defining style , focussing more on argument , he does still argue that style can be used for emphasis : he calls this enargeia , or bringing before the eyes ( Rhetoric 10.4 ; 11.1 ) ...
... Aristotle's Rhetoric bequeathed to the western tradition a sense that rhetoric was associated with order and the rational functioning of society . - It is in republican Rome , and really in the hands of Cicero , that the discipline of ...
... Aristotle's Rhetoric , Hermes 25 ( Wiesbaden , 1972 ) . Habinek , Thomas , Ancient Rhetoric and Oratory ( Blackwell , 2005 ) . Hawkes , Terence , Shakespeare in the Present ( Routledge , 2002 ) . Heller - Roazen , Daniel , " The Matter ...
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Introduction | 9 |
Repetition versus Replication | 19 |
Figures of Speech and Thought in | 39 |
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