Figuratively Speaking: Rhetoric And Culture from Quintilian to the Twin Towers - Brossura

Spence, Sarah

 
9780715635131: Figuratively Speaking: Rhetoric And Culture from Quintilian to the Twin Towers
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ISBN 10: 0715635131 ISBN 13: 9780715635131
Casa editrice: Bristol Classical Press, 2007

Sinossi

Although rhetoric is a term often associated with lies, this book takes a polemical look at rhetoric as a purveyor of truth. Its purpose is to focus on one aspect of rhetoric, figurative speech, and to demonstrate how the treatment of figures of speech provides a common denominator among western cultures from Cicero to the present. The central idea is that, in the western tradition, figurative speech - using language to do more than name - provides the fundamental way for language to articulate concerns central to each cultural moment. In this study, Sarah Spence identifies the embedded tropes for four periods in Western culture: Roman antiquity, the High Middle Ages, the Age of Montaigne, and our present, post-9/11 moment. In so doing, she reasserts the fundamental importance of rhetoric, the art of speaking well.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Sarah Spence is Professor of Classics at the University of Georgia.

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Editore
Bristol Classical Press
Data di pubblicazione
2007
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0715635131
ISBN 13 
9780715635131
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
144
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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