Rhetoric and Renaissance Culture.
Title:
Rhetoric and Renaissance Culture.
Author:
Plett, Heinrich F.
ISBN:
9783110201895
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (581 pages)
Contents:
Foreword -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction Renaissance Culturology and Renaissance Rhetoric -- A.Scope and Genres of Renaissance Rhetoric -- B.Poetica Rhetorica Rhetorical Poetics in the Renaissance -- C.Intermedial Rhetoric -- D.Poeta Orator Shakespeare as Orator Poet -- E.Iconography of Rhetoric and Eloquence -- I. Names -- II. Subjects.
Abstract:
The volume presents a cultural history of renaissance rhetoric with special emphasis on literary theory with its aspects of imagination (inventio), generictheory (dispositio), style (elocutio), mnemonic architecture (memoria), representation (actio) (with Shakespeare's works as illustrations). Special attention is given to the intermedial rhetoric of painting and music and the rhetorical ideology of culture.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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