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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... suggest how some of the challenges to traditional ways of thinking about language led to new ways of seeing the world and writing about it . Croll begins with the given in traditional Renaissance rhetoric , that Cicero was the model for ...
... suggests that Fielding's major novels are marked by a tension between two opposing attitudes toward legal , or forensic , rhetoric : the exuberant confidence with which the narrators rely on it , and the wariness and pessimism with ...
... suggest that the progress of Burke's speech on Conciliation from paragraph to paragraph is like the progress of Othello from scene to scene , though the two technics have little resemblance . Such warping of poetic has sometimes been ...
... of rhetoric , as we have it in the summary miscuit utile dulci ( 343 ) ; and with Horace the movere that remains hardly suggests a different technic . Si vis me flere , dolendum est ( 102 ) will be found in Cicero 14 BALDWIN.
... suggests . There is ironia here in that the speaker says one thing and means another , and that fact could be signalled by a change of tone . But it is also a type of synecdoche in that only a part of a familiar story is presented - but ...
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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