Hermogenes and the Renaissance : Seven Ideas of Style /

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Annabel M. Patterson offers here a reassessment of the place of Hermogenes, a Greek rhetorician of the second century A.D., in literary history. She shows that the literary men of the European Renaissance-scholars, critics, and poets-found Hermogenes' Concerning Ideas both important and extreme...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Patterson, Annabel M. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1970.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Hermogenes, > active 2nd century. > Peri ideōn.
Peri ideōn (Hermogenes)
Rhetoric, Renaissance.
Literary style.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Style litteraire.
Rhetorique de la Renaissance.
Litterature europeenne > 1450-1600 (Renaissance) > Histoire et critique > Theorie, etc.
European literature > Renaissance, 1450-1600 > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. "Imitation of Great Masters": Decorum of Style
  • 2. "The Seven Capital Stars": Descriptions of the Seven Ideas
  • 3. "High Talk": Canzone and Ode
  • 4. "Savage Indignation": Elizabethan Satire
  • 5. "True Nakedness": Elizabethan Sonnets
  • 6. "Courage Means Running": The Idea of Speed
  • 7. "The Grand Master-Piece to Observe": Renaissance Epic
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography. Some Renaissance Editions and Translations of Hermogenes, 1500-1650
  • General Bibliography
  • Index

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