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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... Lucretius . 13 Here we see clearly the image he provides transferred to the written page . In the centre of the page we have the text of Lucretius , interspersed with Lambinus ' notes and sigla ( these notes are sometimes at the bottom ...
... Lucretius , this metaphor is realized in his own notation to ancient texts , where ' la vuide tout autour ' is ... Lucretius support this idea . While he leaves the text of Lucretius markedly untouched , he quibbles with the grammar and ...
... Lucretius , ed . M.A. Screech ( Droz , 1998 ) . 14. Jacques Derrida , Glas ( Galilee , 1974 ) . 15. Terence Hawkes , Shakespeare in the Present ( Routledge , 2002 ) , p . 31 . 16. Montaigne's Lucretius ( above , n . 12 ) , p . xx . 17 ...
Contents
Introduction | 9 |
Repetition versus Replication | 19 |
Figures of Speech and Thought in | 39 |
Copyright | |
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