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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... Aristotle , whose system made a clear division between rhetoric and poetics , freely admitted that the two arts shared several key features . The connection between the two arts remained close in postclassical culture . One of the three ...
... Aristotle's Poetics develops a distinction between poetry that praises virtue and poetry that condemns vice . My " King Lear and the Figures of Speech " argues that differences in how the figures of speech are used in this play reveal ...
... Aristotle without following his distinctive idea . Cicero and Tacitus , best of Latin critics , naturally contemplate in poetic rather its imagery than its movement ; 2 and Quintilian , ' even more naturally , explores only its ...
... Aristotle's Poetic . It is ignored by both Horace and Plutarch.23 As Dio's words went down the ancient wind , so Lessing's almost identical distinction24 has not precluded much bland modern confusion of the arts . More and more a ...
... Aristotle is almost alone in proposing for poetic principles frankly aesthetic . The general tendency of ancient ... Aristotle's use of that term , 29 has in mind faithfulness to fact . Ignoring also the Aristotelian idea of poetic ...
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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