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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... synecdoche : a part of the myth is told and the reader must supply the rest . This does not , however , complete the analysis , and a further process is involved . For , though the relationship of Atreus to Thyestes is metonymically ...
... synecdoche before metonymy ; and , though systematically synecdoche is to be seen as a form of metonymy , yet synecdoche is the figure that offers a poet greater possibilities because of the disproportion it permits between the thing ...
... synecdoche ( as distinct from 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 ...
... synecdoche ( 8.6.23- 27 ) ; he regards it as a figure more suited to poets than to orators , in spite of the fact that he exemplifies it only by quite obvious substitutions of one word or name for another . Since his view of metonymy is ...
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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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