Figuratively Speaking: Rhetoric and Culture from Quintilian to the Twin TowersBloomsbury Academic, 2007 M05 25 - 160 páginas 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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... Herennium , attributed to Cicero . In Faral's book Les Arts poétiques du 12me et du 13me siècle , which gathers together a collection of important Latin trea- tises from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries on how to compose poetry ...
... Herennium refuses to exemplify because it was so embedded in the project as a whole , commoratio . At the start of the section of the Ad Herennium that covers figures , it is clearly stated that the purpose of the treatise is to provide ...
... Herennium . From the Ad Herennium we learn that there is one term that is so embedded in the process of style that it cannot be exemplified . Because of this status it drops out of the list and becomes , instead , the rubric for all ...
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Acknowledgements 7 | 9 |
Repetition versus Replication | 19 |
Figures of Speech and Thought in | 39 |
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