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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... epic is presuming . Aeneas ' treatment of Sicily is a thor- oughly political , polemical and imperial statement . Yet , in Ovid's hands , this entire statement is undercut by the one simple act of sending Aeneas through the straits ...
... epic tradition , and he does so through a combination of hesitation and correction . At the beginning of the thirteenth book , when he has finally surpassed Vergil's twelve- book Aeneid in length , Ovid starts his own ' little Aeneid ...
... epic and another , earlier Homeric form . The first fact we learn about Ajax is that he already has a shield , a fact that Ulysses reminds us of later ; if the shield is , as it would appear to be , the subject matter of epic , then the ...
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Acknowledgements 7 | 9 |
Repetition versus Replication | 19 |
Figures of Speech and Thought in | 39 |
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Figuratively Speaking: Rhetoric and Culture from Quintilian to the Twin Towers Sarah Spence Vista de fragmentos - 2007 |