Classical Rhetoric in English PoetryMacmillan, 1970 - 180 sidor Back in print after 17 years, this is a concise history of rhetoric as it relates to structure, genre, and style, with special reference to English literature and literary criticism from Ancient Greece to the end of the 18th century. The core of the book is a quite original argument that the figures of rhetoric were not mere mechanical devices, were not, as many believed, a "nuisance, a quite sterile appendage to rhetoric to which (unaccountably) teachers, pupils, and writers all over the world devoted much labor for over 2,000 years." Rather, Vickers demonstrates, rhetoric was a stylized representation of language and human feelings. Vickers supplements his argument through analyses of the rhetorical and emotional structure of four Renaissance poems. He also defines 16 of the most common figures of rhetoric, citing examples from the classics, the Bible, and major English poets from Chaucer to Pope. |
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... described as membrum , the figure which ends the construction suddenly , but not the sense ; and of the sequence of clauses beginning with verbs similarly inflected ( ' Fuisti ... distribuisti ... statuisti ... delegisti ...
... described as membrum , the figure which ends the construction suddenly , but not the sense ; and of the sequence of clauses beginning with verbs similarly inflected ( ' Fuisti ... distribuisti ... statuisti ... delegisti ...
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... described in the abstract or personified , men always say that it has great power over the emotions , as a few quotations from our main periods will remind us . In the first century A.D. Plutarch writes ( in North's translation ) , that ...
... described in the abstract or personified , men always say that it has great power over the emotions , as a few quotations from our main periods will remind us . In the first century A.D. Plutarch writes ( in North's translation ) , that ...
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Brian Vickers. tragi - comedy Christus Redivivus , described how poetry at its most intense , ' with marshalled words in battle array ' , can attack with the power of a winter snowstorm , and capture all who read it ( Sweet- ing , 150 ) ...
Brian Vickers. tragi - comedy Christus Redivivus , described how poetry at its most intense , ' with marshalled words in battle array ' , can attack with the power of a winter snowstorm , and capture all who read it ( Sweet- ing , 150 ) ...
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Preface | 11 |
A CONCISE HISTORY OF RHETORIC | 43 |
THE PROCESSES OF RHETORIC | 61 |
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Classical Rhetoric in English Poetry: With a New Preface and Annotated ... Brian Vickers Begränsad förhandsgranskning - 1989 |
Classical Rhetoric in English Poetry: With a New Preface and Annotated ... Brian Vickers Begränsad förhandsgranskning - 1989 |
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Classical Rhetoric & Its Christian & Secular Tradition from Ancient to ... George Alexander Kennedy Begränsad förhandsgranskning - 1999 |