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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... literary critics often explored the same concepts , so that treatises like Demetrius ' On Style and Lon- ginus ' On the Sublime proved equally valuable for the analysis of speeches and poems . Even philosophers like Aristotle , whose ...
... literary history . Some rhetorical 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 ...
... literary criticism often unfolds from rhetorical principles , the process can work the other way as well . The last essay in this volume , " The Range of Rhetoric , " shows how this can happen . Here Burke begins with Milton's Samson ...
... literary criticism . Where this was incidental , it need not be taken too seriously . No device of public speaking is more persistent than the flattering of an audience by literary allusions and accepted adjectives of admiration ...
... literary criticism . By the insertion of recited passages it could easily and effectively have been expanded into a lecture ; but even without these it is both sustained and suggestive . Dio Chrysostom , Oratio LII Aeschylus , Sophocles ...
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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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