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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... asserts that rhetoric served to turn its back on the past , to reject the earlier , pre - evolved past of ancient ... assertion that the nineteenth century , in turning its back on the past , like- wise turned its back on the ' binarism ...
... asserting his rights to the Vergilian material . The debate between Ajax and Odysseus , in other words , is also a ... asserts that his version is truer , both of this tale and of the Aeneid material that follows . On the one hand , we ...
... asserted about them is in fact drawn from fictional ' lives ' that contain little truth . The poems cover many topics - politics , loss , friendship – in many different genres , including dawn songs , debates , eulogies . But the ...
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Introduction | 9 |
Repetition versus Replication | 19 |
Figures of Speech and Thought in | 39 |
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