Landmark Essays on Rhetoric and Literature: Volume 16, Volume 16Craig Kallendorf Routledge, 2017 M10 3 - 267 pages The studies of rhetoric and literature have been closely connected on the theoretical level ever since antiquity, and many great works of literature were written by men and women who were well versed in rhetoric. It is therefore well worth investigating exactly what these writers knew about rhetoric and how the practice of literary criticism has been enriched through rhetorical knowledge. |
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... Aeschylus , and of the older Sophocles with the younger Euripides ; but Euripides was quite outside of the generation of Aeschylus , and competed with him seldom , if ever , in the same drama . My having all three to read together ...
... Aeschylus ] seems beyond those who now try to be simple and high - minded . When Athena transforms him , nothing more is needed to keep Philoctetes in igno- rance of who he is . So Homer made the story , and after him Euripides ...
... Aeschylus nor the precision and sharpness and oratorical cast of Euripides , but a grave and magnificent poetic embracing all that is most tragic and most eloquent , uniting the greatest charm with sublimity and gravity . For his action ...
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Contents
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Ernst Robert Curtius Poetry and Rhetoric | 41 |
Orators | 63 |
O B Hardison Jr Rhetoric Poetics and the Theory of Praise | 79 |
Craig Kallendorf King Lear and the Figures of Speech | 101 |
Lipsius Montaigne Bacon | 119 |
Thomas O Sloane The Disintegration of Humanist Rhetoric | 147 |
Charles A Beaumont Swifts Rhetoric in A Modest Proposal | 167 |
Glen McClish Henry Fielding the Novel and Classical | 189 |
Brian Vickers Rhetoric and the Modern Novel | 211 |
Kenneth Burke The Range of Rhetoric | 225 |
Bibliography | 243 |
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