Figuratively Speaking
Rhetoric and Culture from Quintilian to the Twin Towers
1st Edition
Published on 20. November 2013
160 pages
978-1-84966-756-2 (ISBN)
Description
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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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
ISBN-13
978-1-84966-756-2 (9781849667562)
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05/2007
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Content
- Cover Page
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Imprint Page
- Contents
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. Weapons of Mass Creation: Repetition versus Replication
- 2. Looking Back: Figures of Speech and Thought in the Roman World
- 3. Dwelling on a Point: Rhetoric and Love in the Middle Ages
- 4. The Chiastic Page: The Rhetoric of Montaigne's Essais
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
