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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... interest in appointing to their schools and universities the best available . This flattering testimony to their kudos is seen too in the remarkable development known as the ' Second Sophistic ' ( from the second to the fourth century ...
... interest in appointing to their schools and universities the best available . This flattering testimony to their kudos is seen too in the remarkable development known as the ' Second Sophistic ' ( from the second to the fourth century ...
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... interest in elocutio or style , until medieval and Renaissance rhetoric was essentially stylistic . Poetry and prose were of equal status because style was common in both , and because literature was rhetoric . Ramus's tidying - up of ...
... interest in elocutio or style , until medieval and Renaissance rhetoric was essentially stylistic . Poetry and prose were of equal status because style was common in both , and because literature was rhetoric . Ramus's tidying - up of ...
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... interest and energy have automatically gravitated towards style , towards the very detail of language . Nor is this centrifugal force to be lamented , for , as Miss Doran goes on to observe , in the English Renaissance ' interest in ...
... interest and energy have automatically gravitated towards style , towards the very detail of language . Nor is this centrifugal force to be lamented , for , as Miss Doran goes on to observe , in the English Renaissance ' interest in ...
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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 |
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