Figuratively Speaking: Rhetoric and Culture from Quintilian to the Twin TowersAlthough 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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... poem ( ' at the one hesitating , Aeneas brandishes his fatal weapon ' : cunctanti telum Aeneas fatale coruscat [ Aeneid 12.919 ] ) . In each of these instances , hesitation speaks against the grain of the imperial mission the poem on ...
... poem so much as its meaning . A poem of six stanzas and three tornadas , or final transmitting sets of lines , the rhyme remains consistent through the first three stanzas ; then through the second three ; and the tornadas repeat the ...
... poem says of the words is made evident through the structure the rhyme creates as well as through the conceptual space the poem carves out to make itself prezens there at Urgel . Rhymes and love Faral's book collects major medieval ...
Contents
Acknowledgements 7 | 9 |
Repetition versus Replication | 19 |
Figures of Speech and Thought in | 39 |
Copyright | |
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