Rhetoric and poetics in antiquity /

This book offers a counter-traditional account of the history of both rhetoric and poetics. In reply to traditional rhetorical histories, which view "rhetoric" as an art of practical civic oratory, the book argues in four extended essays that epideictic-poetic eloquence was central, even f...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Walker, Jeffrey, 1949-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
Temas:
To 1500
Rhetoric, Ancient.
Classical literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Poetics > History > To 1500.
Rhétorique ancienne.
Littérature ancienne > Histoire et critique > Théorie, etc.
Poétique.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Rhetoric.
REFERENCE > Writing Skills.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Composition & Creative Writing.
Poetics.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Before the beginnings: Hesiod on eloquence
  • The emergence of Poiêsis, logos and Rhêtorikê
  • Hellenistic rhetoric
  • "Rhetoric" from Cicero to the second sophistic
  • Theognis' Octopus: on poetry as rhetorical transaction
  • Lyric enthymemes
  • A "truest paradigm for Western Lyric": Pindar Isthmian 3, and Olympian 1
  • Argumentation indoors: Alcaeus and Sappho
  • Solon sophôtatos: on lyric argument maximal and minimal
  • Aristotelianism and grammar
  • Toward modernity.

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