Figuring style: the legacy of Renaissance rhetoric
Introduction: the philosophy of style in the renaissance rhetorical curriculum -- Competing views of style -- Additional contexts: philosophical, historical, methodological -- The comprehensiveness of figures -- Style as form, form as figure -- Implications -- A new definition of figure -- Style as...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Columbia, South Carolina
The University of South Carolina Press
[2013]
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| In: | Year: 2013 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Christiansen, Nancy L., Figuring Style: The Legacy of Renaissance Rhetoric] (2015) (Lazaroiu, George)
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| Series/Journal: | Studies in rhetoric / communication
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Renaissance
/ Rhetoric
B English language / Rhetoric / History 1420-1600 |
| Further subjects: | B
Rhetoric, Renaissance
History and criticism
B Collection of samples |
| Summary: | Introduction: the philosophy of style in the renaissance rhetorical curriculum -- Competing views of style -- Additional contexts: philosophical, historical, methodological -- The comprehensiveness of figures -- Style as form, form as figure -- Implications -- A new definition of figure -- Style as invention/invention as style -- Discourse, a web of schemes -- Rhetoric, the umbrella of the communication arts -- The question of the plain style -- The figurative nature of mind -- The figurative nature of human behavior -- Functions of figures and styles: tools and mirrors -- Figure/style/text as performance -- Figure/style/text as argument: both tool of persuasion and mirror of mind -- Figures and styles as assertions -- Figures and styles as emotional expressions -- Figures and styles as characters -- Ethics, the center of style -- Conclusion: the figure as utterance -- Stylistic analysis -- Satan in paradise lost -- Shakespeare's sonnet 129 -- Titus in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus -- Appendix 1: a handlist of the figures -- Appendix 2: a chronology of sources -- Appendix 3: an alphabetical listing of the figures -- Appendix 4: the figures and the elements of the curriculum |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 611-634) and index |
| ISBN: | 1611172403 |