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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... means a standard of validity and value that is backed up by the tried - and - true proce- dures and protocols of a well - developed practice or discipline ... then such standards are all around us . ... What this means ... is that ...
... means more than speaking correctly . Instead , speaking well means to speak the good and to do so by fashioning your speech in such a way that it reflects the good . Style is linked with content , and both are vehicles for social order ...
... means to self - discovery for Geoffrey ; a means to escape only for Ambrose . It is , I would argue , no accident that ' I read ' is Geoffrey's example for amplification . Geoffrey will , at the end , confirm this , by adducing as a ...
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Introduction | 9 |
Repetition versus Replication | 19 |
Figures of Speech and Thought in | 39 |
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