Figuratively Speaking: Rhetoric and Culture from Quintilian to the Twin TowersBloomsbury Academic, 25.05.2007 - 160 Seiten 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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... Correction . For what one doubts in the former Figure one corrects in this ' ( 9.3.88 ) . Hesitation and correction , he points out , are two figures that can be classified as both figures of speech and figures of thought . In this ...
... corrections Quintilian has suggested . Hesitation and correction , then , are , first and foremost , key tropes for understanding how Quintilian is reading and treating Cicero . As the res publica becomes adapted , manipulated ...
... correction and hesitation as not easy to categorize and so suggests that , like repetition in contempo- rary society ... correction also serve to create a space for Roman community , one that draws those who read Latin together in ...
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Acknowledgements 7 | 9 |
Repetition versus Replication | 19 |
Figures of Speech and Thought in | 39 |
Urheberrecht | |
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