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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... metaphor and metonymy , which could involve important and interesting alteration of the content of the ideas . ' Further , since these were considered as phenomena of vocabulary , and since the theorists ' major interest was in ...
... metaphor or simile . In Odes 1.2 , within the myth of Ilia and the Tiber , the complaint of Ilia causes the river to flood . The reader must infer the nature of that complaint from the context . This , again , is a type of synecdoche in ...
... metaphor within the context . This poem , however , needs further analysis , but that will suffice for the moment ... metaphor and metonymy . Cicero ( orator 92-94 ) defined metaphor as a substitution by similarity , and metonymy ...
... metaphor ) , but the potentiality of the figure for poets is clear . Particularly interesting is the category which he passes over so quickly and of which ( unlike the others ) he gives no examples : the understanding of what follows ...
... metaphor or a coherent series of metaphors . The example he gives of this is Horace's ode 1.14 . He quotes just over two lines from its opening and comments : ' and the whole of that passage of Horace in which he speaks of a ship ...
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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