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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... chiastic tension with the fixity of the portrait the texts are trying to depict . Amplification emerges as the key figure , but it is amplification within certain bounds : growth with a purpose and a focus that is perhaps best ...
... chiastic . As he insists on the difference between his text and the central one , as he asserts the pre - eminence or at least comparable gravitas of his own work , Montaigne urges the reader to see his texts as comparable to the orig ...
... chiastic than random . The chiastic layout of the page is echoed in his work , where the key phrase ' c'est moy que je peins ' embeds the chiasm in the central project . His notes on the flyleaves of the Lucretius support this idea ...
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Introduction | 9 |
Repetition versus Replication | 19 |
Figures of Speech and Thought in | 39 |
Urheberrecht | |
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