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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... stress the utility of ' figures of thought ' in terms of their intellectual penetration ( the rapier not the cutlass ) , for as ' the task of the skilful swordsman is to give the impression that his design is quite other The Functions ...
... stress the utility of ' figures of thought ' in terms of their intellectual penetration ( the rapier not the cutlass ) , for as ' the task of the skilful swordsman is to give the impression that his design is quite other The Functions ...
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... stress but that repetition of a framework will give great emphasis to any new elements inserted into it . Thus the figures of symmetry ( anaphora , parison , isocolon ) build up to a climax on the new term : ' Past reason hunted / Past ...
... stress but that repetition of a framework will give great emphasis to any new elements inserted into it . Thus the figures of symmetry ( anaphora , parison , isocolon ) build up to a climax on the new term : ' Past reason hunted / Past ...
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... stress : ' die ' . This stress is backed up by the polyptoton which begins the exposition of the real Good : ' live . . . life ' , a contrast which the rest of this second quatrain develop sin a direct way with anadiplosis , moving ...
... stress : ' die ' . This stress is backed up by the polyptoton which begins the exposition of the real Good : ' live . . . life ' , a contrast which the rest of this second quatrain develop sin a direct way with anadiplosis , moving ...
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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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Ages analysis aposiopesis applied argument Aristotle Astrophil and Stella Baldwin called century chapter character Cicero classical connection conventions course criticism Curtius demonstration described detail discussion Donne effect Elizabethan eloquence emotional English especially essential evidence examples expression fact feeling follow force function further genre give given Greek Herennium human idea important influence interest kind language later Latin literary literature live logic Lost master meaning medieval Middle mind move nature observed orator oratory organic perhaps period poem poetry poets Pope practical praise processes prose psychological Quintilian Ramist reason reference Renaissance repeated repetition rhetorical figures rhetoricians schools seems seen sense Shakespeare shown Sidney Sonnet speech stress structure style suggest teaching theory things thou thought tion tradition tropes whole writers
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