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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... space for community . The parameters of that space - and even its location - change over time , as do the forces needed to clear the field , as it were . But in each case , a figure that causes the most trouble in the treatises is one ...
... space for Roman community , one that draws those who read Latin together in response to the Greek tradition that comes before . In the space on the battlefield - which becomes the space of the forum or the court- Roman rhetoric prevails ...
... space of the forum has been transferred to the space of understanding . What this passage asks us to focus on is the here and now of Suger's surroundings because they evoke ascension , to use a term from his favourite philosophers ...
Inhalt
Introduction | 9 |
Repetition versus Replication | 19 |
Figures of Speech and Thought in | 39 |
Urheberrecht | |
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