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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... character must be understood by anyone who wants to appreciate the literature of the period . " Dramatic Rhetoric and Rhetorical Drama : Orators and Actors " turns to a different area of medieval culture : the connections between giving ...
... characters adequate to the action , thoughts approved by experience , humor not too low for comedy , seriousness not involving tragedy . Seductions in his plays are rare ; even legitimate loves are treated as aberrations . None the less ...
... character could not be sustained ( i.e. , through ten years ) , yet the disease of Philoctetes , his misery , and his having passed the interim in a desert are sufficient to make plausible his not recognizing Odysseus . For many have ...
... character through the movement of the plot , the dramatic manage- ment of persons through interaction . Thus Dio has made his criticism singularly consistent . Instead of merely appreciating one dramatist after the other , he has made ...
... character . If perchance your poem revives time - honored Achilles , let the active , touchy , stubborn , fierce hero think that laws were not made for him , and rest his claim on arms . Let Medea be cruel and unconquered , Ino tearful ...
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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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