Landmark Essays on Rhetoric and Literature: Volume 16, Volume 16Craig Kallendorf The studies of rhetoric and literature have been closely connected on the theoretical level ever since antiquity, and many great works of literature were written by men and women who were well versed in rhetoric. It is therefore well worth investigating exactly what these writers knew about rhetoric and how the practice of literary criticism has been enriched through rhetorical knowledge. |
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... language works in much the same way no matter how it is used , rhetoric also remains a valid mode of criticism for those literary works that cannot be shown to have incorporated specific rhetorical features by design . The essays ...
... language led to new ways of seeing the world and writing about it . Croll begins with the given in traditional Renaissance rhetoric , that Cicero was the model for a polished prose style . His study on " Attic Prose : Lipsius ...
... language and how it is used of what we have in common . Acknowledgments This volume would never have been finished without the technical assistance of two individuals : Hilaire Kallendorf , who patiently introduced me to the mysteries ...
... Language and Literature , number 3 , 1919 ) . 7. Ancient Rhetoric and Poetic , page 68 . 8. Ibid . , pages 56 , 57 . 9. Ibid . , page 102. What Alfred Croiset says of him seems true rather of the habit of his time : " questions arrĂȘtĂ©es ...
... : Yale University Press , 1980 ) , pp . 20-44 . Reprinted by permission of the author . parallel manipulation of language and ideas . Essentially , to 19 Gordon Williams, Figures of Thought in Roman Poetry: Theoretical Considerations.
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Ernst Robert Curtius Poetry and Rhetoric | 41 |
Orators | 63 |
O B Hardison Jr Rhetoric Poetics and the Theory of Praise | 79 |
Craig Kallendorf King Lear and the Figures of Speech | 101 |
Lipsius Montaigne Bacon | 119 |
Thomas O Sloane The Disintegration of Humanist Rhetoric | 147 |
Charles A Beaumont Swifts Rhetoric in A Modest Proposal | 167 |
Glen McClish Henry Fielding the Novel and Classical | 189 |
Brian Vickers Rhetoric and the Modern Novel | 211 |
Kenneth Burke The Range of Rhetoric | 225 |
Bibliography | 243 |
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