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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Patterson, Annabel M. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1970.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
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.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé: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 extremely useful, and she finds that they vigorously applied his concepts to create ""a lovely conformitie."" The author first gives the history of this treatise on style and a detailed critical analysis of the Seven Ideas or categories of style. The book then demonstrates genre by genre how knowledge of the.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (258 pages).
ISBN:9781400870660

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