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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... words of Dio Chrysostom ; but Plutarch's poetic is indistin- guishable from rhetoric . B. Criticism from Grammarians The overwhelming preponderance of rhetoric in critical thought followed natu- rally from the dominance of rhetoric in ...
... words , certainly by this plan , in more than one welcoming city . Such a prepared address needed only the adjustment of the proem to the place and the occasion.22 The lecture itself remained substantially the same . This one makes ...
... words went down the ancient wind , so Lessing's almost identical distinction24 has not precluded much bland modern confusion of the arts . More and more a moralist as his life advanced , turning from rhetor into preacher , Dio ...
... word , Plutarch's moralizing of poetic is definitely rhetorical . For the schools of philosophy generally poetic was incidental to the consideration of diction ; for him it was indistinguishable in method . E. Horace's Ars Poetica That ...
... words , style of diction " ; ( 2 ) 119-284 , characterization in drama , the Greek practise of drama ; ( 3 ) 285 - end , " the two aims of poetry , the necessity of excellence . " But this is not a division at all . Wilkins , admitting ...
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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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