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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... devices , Williams argues , postpone or complicate under- standing , while others generate immediate , emotional responses . Ovid and the poets after him moved their emphasis from the first group of figures to the second , so that ...
... devices figure in every episode of Ulysses . " It is important to note , however , that while literary criticism often unfolds from rhetorical principles , the process can work the other way as well . The last essay in this volume ...
... device of public speaking is more persistent than the flattering of an audience by literary allusions and accepted adjectives of admiration . " Such passages , in ancient speeches or in modern , show merely what is regarded as the right ...
... device with a sick man , and a bowman at that , whose strength became useless so soon as one but stood near ? And the announcing of the mishaps of the Achaeans , that Agamemnon was dead , that Odysseus was to blame most disgrace- fully ...
... Devices which postponed or complicated under- standing had to be abandoned in favour of devices which generated immediate , generally emotional , response . The consequence seems to have been that poetry of the late Republic and early ...
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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