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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... method not only necessary for schooling but valuable more widely . By sheer prevalence it must always be influential ; illumination must in fact have come oftener from such interpretation than from a systematic treatise on poetry . None ...
... method far more tragic as well as simpler , whereas that of Euripides is more oratorical and precise . If [ dramatists ] could escape all absurdities in their tragedies , perhaps there would be reason for not neglecting this ; but ...
... method . E. Horace's Ars Poetica That the unsystematic epistolary reflections of a Latin poet on poetry should for centuries have influenced criticism of poetic more than the searching analysis and consecutive synthesis of the greatest ...
... method of composition whose aim was to render the impact of the composition as immediate and as complete as possible on an audience rather than a reader . Devices which postponed or complicated under- standing had to be abandoned in ...
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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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