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

Spence, Sarah

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0715635131 ISBN 13: 9780715635131

Casa editrice: Bristol Classical Press, 2007

Riassunto

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.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

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

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Bristol Classical Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0715635131
• ISBN 13: 9780715635131
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 144