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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... tradition that has received comparatively little attention . From antiquity through the Middle Ages , however ... traditional ways of thinking about language led to new ways of seeing the world and writing about it . Croll begins with ...
... traditional rhetorical criticism remains a valuable tool for the interpretation of modern litera- ture , for ... tradition that are often overlooked . The oldest dates back almost 75 years , the newest but 3 , so that a reader ...
... tradition of the Alexandrian grammarians included , besides syntax and exegesis , textual criticism . But such criticism depends for much of its value on science little explored by the ancients ; and typically it makes little ...
... tradition as that is conceived and defined by the poets ( 55-57 ) , that since we yearn for a personal divine , the human body is its best expression , and that Homer too ( 62 ) made his gods human . There follows a comparison of ...
... tradition , as well as his austerity of thought and expression , seemed appropriate to tragedy and to the ancient ... traditional [ in Aeschylus ] seems beyond those who now try to be simple and high - minded . When Athena transforms him ...
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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