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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... emotional responses . Ovid and the poets after him moved their emphasis from the first group of figures to the second , so that poetry of the late Republic and early Augustan Age has proved difficult for later readers to appreciate . In ...
... emotion and thought . Conventional as he appears when considered merely as one of a numerous class , he might nevertheless be an outstanding individual ; and even as a type he was at least accomplished and influential . 18 Apuleius ...
... emotional movement the Aeneid is solitary ; and even while it was revered , its poetic seems less influential than that of Ovid . Vergil had turned for his poetic from the newer Greek ways adopted by his countrymen to the tradition ...
... emotional , response . The consequence seems to have been that poetry of the late Republic and early Augustan Age was imperfectly understood , or even misunderstood , from a time not long after its composition . 1. The Four Problems in ...
... emotional language ( o navis ... o quid agis ? ) , by the way he calls the ship's own attention to her damage , and by ... emotion ( 17-20 ) : nuper sollicitum quae mihi taedium , nunc desiderium curaque non FIGURES OF THOUGHT IN ROMAN ...
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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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