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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... readers looking for rhetoric in Ovid . Yet this debate is significant for its placement as well as its style : it is my contention that Ovid places the debate here as an introduction to his little Aeneid , and that he intends the reader ...
... reader knows the outcome of the debate , and that Ajax foreshadows that outcome with his own sense of help- lessness , aided and abetted by the fact that we read him as a version of Dido . Moreover , this Ajax is not just a Dido figure ...
... reader who loses my subject , not I. Some word about it will always be found off in a corner , which will not fail to be sufficient , though it takes little room . ... My style and my mind alike go roaming ( Frame , p . 925 ) . - Rather ...
Contents
Introduction | 9 |
Repetition versus Replication | 19 |
Figures of Speech and Thought in | 39 |
Copyright | |
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