Contents -- Foreword to the English Edition of Literary Rhetoric -- Part I Rhetoric and Literature -- Chapter One From the Decline of Rhetoric to its Revival -- Chapter Two Rhetorical Literature -- Chapter Three Literary Rhetoric -- Chapter Four Rhetoric and Literary Criticism -- Part II The Realm of Rhetoric -- Chapter One Approaches to Rhetoric -- Chapter Two The Domains of Rhetoric -- Chapter Three The Rhetoric of Figures -- Chapter Four The System of Figures -- 4.1 Design of a New Model of Figures -- 4.2 Model Comparison as Model Critique -- 4.2.1 Historical Models of Figures of Speech -- 4.2.2 Modern Models of Figures of Speech -- 4.2.3 Critical Synopsis -- 4.3 Pragmatic and Semantic Figures of Speech -- Chapter Five Competence and Performance -- Chapter Six The Aesthetics of the Figures of Speech -- Part III The System of Figures -- Chapter One Phonological Figures -- 1.1 Phonaesthetic Basic Structure: The Phonic Figures -- 1.1.1 Figures of Phonological Deviation (Metaphonemes) -- 1.1.1.1 Addition -- 1.1.1.2 Subtraction -- 1.1.1.3 Permutation -- 1.1.1.4 Substitution -- Text Analysis: Ernst Jandl, "etüde in f" Verses 1-3 (in: Ernst Jandl, Laut und Luise. Neuwied/Berlin: Luchterhand, 1971, p. 14) -- 1.1.2 Figures of Phonological Equivalence (Isophonemes) -- 1.1.2.1 Position -- 1.1.2.2 Extent -- 1.1.2.3 Similarity -- 1.1.2.4 Frequency -- 1.1.2.5 Distribution -- Text Analysis: Gerard Manley Hopkins, "The Windhover" (In: Gerard Manley Hopkins, Poems and Prose, ed. W.H. Gardner. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1961, p. 30) -- 1.1.2.6 Digression: Semantic Aspects of Phonaesthetics -- 1.2 Phonaesthetic Superstructure: The Prosodic Figures -- 1.2.1 Phonaesthetic Competence: Metre -- 1.2.1.1 Accent Figures -- 1.2.1.1.1 Position -- 1.2.1.1.2 Extent -- 1.2.1.1.3 Similarity -- 1.2.1.1.4 Frequency -- 1.2.1.1.5 Distribution.

1.2.1.2 Pause Figures and Pitch Figures -- 1.2.2 Phonaesthetic Performance: Rhythm -- 1.2.2.1 Deviating Accentuation -- 1.2.2.2 Deviating Pausation -- Text Analysis: William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream (V.I.108-117) -- 1.3 The Interaction of Phonic and Prosodic Figures -- Chapter Two Morphological Figures -- 2.1 Figures of Morphological Deviation (Metamorphemes) -- 2.1.1 Intra-word Deviation -- 2.1.1.1 Addition -- 2.1.1.2 Subtraction -- 2.1.1.3 Permutation -- 2.1.1.4 Substitution -- Text Analysis: Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky (The Annotated Alice, ed. Martin Gardner. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1966, p. 191) -- 2.1.2 Context-bound Deviations -- 2.1.2.1 Diastratic Deviations -- 2.1.2.2 Diatopic Deviations -- 2.1.2.3 Bilingual or Multilingual Deviations -- 2.1.2.4 Diachronic Deviations -- 2.1.2.5 Digression: Deviations of Word-class (Conversion) -- Text Analysis: E.E. Cummings, "anyone lived in a pretty how town" (in: E.E. Cummings, Selected Poems 1923-1958. London: Faber & Faber, 1970, pp. 44-45) -- 2.2 Figures of Morphological Equivalence (Isomorphemes) -- 2.2.1 Position -- 2.2.2 Extent -- 2.2.3 Frequency -- 2.2.4 Distribution -- 2.2.5 Similarity -- 2.2.5.1 Polyptoton -- 2.2.5.2 Paronymy -- 2.2.5.3 The Ambiguity of Wordplay -- 2.2.5.3.1 Homophonic Wordplay -- 2.2.5.3.2 Polysemic and Homonymic Wordplay -- 2.2.5.3.3 Homoeophonic Wordplay (Paronomasia) -- 2.2.5.3.4 Homoeographic Word Play (Eye Rhyme) -- Text Analysis: George Herbert, "A Wreath" (in: George Herbert, The Works, ed. F.E. Hutchinson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1964, p. 185) -- Chapter Three Syntactic Figures -- 3.1 Figures of Syntactic Deviation (Metataxemes) -- 3.1.1 Addition -- 3.1.2 Subtraction -- 3.1.2.1 Ellipsis -- 3.1.2.2 Zeugma -- 3.1.3 Permutation -- 3.1.4 Substitution.

Text Analysis: Carl Sternheim, Das Fossil I.iv. (excerpt) (source: Carl Sternheim, Dramen, ed. W. Emrich. 3 vols. Neuwied: Luchterhand, 1963, vol. I, p. 313) -- 3.2 Figures of Syntactic Equivalence (Isotaxemes) -- 3.2.1 Similarity -- 3.2.2 Frequency -- 3.2.3 Extent and Position -- 3.2.4 Distribution -- 3.2.5 Phonological, Morphological and Semantic Aspects -- Text Analyses -- Bertolt Brecht, "Lob der Partei" -- William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar III.ii.13-47 (the Brutus speech) -- Chapter Four Semantic Figures -- 4.1 Figures of Semantic Deviation (Metasememes) -- 4.1.1 Addition -- 4.1.2 Subtraction -- 4.1.3 Permutation -- 4.1.4 Substitution -- 4.1.4.1 Similarity Tropes (Metaphors) -- 4.1.4.2 Contiguity Tropes (Metonymies) -- Text Analyses -- Johann Wolfgang Goethe, "Kennst du das Land . . .?" -- Emily Dickinson, "I like to see it lap the Miles" -- 4.2 Figures of Semantic Equivalence (Isosememes) -- Text Analyses -- Edmund Spenser, The Fairie Queene III.i.46 -- Andreas Gryphius, Die Hölle -- Chapter Five Graphemic Figures -- 5.1 Figures of Graphemic Deviation (Metagraphemes) -- 5.1.1 Addition -- 5.1.2 Subtraction -- 5.1.3 Permutation -- 5.1.4 Substitution -- 5.1.4.1 Substitution within the same Graphemic System -- 5.1.4.2 Substitution Outside the same Graphemic System -- Text Analyses -- Ernst Jandl, "onkel toms hütte" -- Gerhard Rühm, "schweigen" -- 5.2 Figures of Graphemic Equivalence (Isographemes) -- Text Analyses -- Gerhard Rühm, "die ersten menschen sind auf dem mond" -- A Poem by E.E. Cummings -- Václav Havel, "antreten" -- Chapter Six Textological Figures (Text Figures) -- 6.1 Figures of Textological Deviation (Metatextemes) -- 6.1.1 Addition -- 6.1.2 Subtraction -- 6.1.3 Substitution -- 6.1.4 Permutation -- 6.2 Figures of Textological Equivalence (Isotextemes) -- Chapter Seven Intertextual Figures.

7.1 Figures of Intertextual Deviation (Meta-Intertextemes) -- 7.1.1 Substitution (Quotation) -- 7.1.2 Permutation (Cento) -- 7.2 Figures of Intertextual Equivalence (Iso-Intertextemes) -- Bibliography -- Indices -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.