Classical Rhetoric in English PoetryMacmillan, 1970 - Počet stran: 180 Back in print after 17 years, this is a concise history of rhetoric as it relates to structure, genre, and style, with special reference to English literature and literary criticism from Ancient Greece to the end of the 18th century. The core of the book is a quite original argument that the figures of rhetoric were not mere mechanical devices, were not, as many believed, a "nuisance, a quite sterile appendage to rhetoric to which (unaccountably) teachers, pupils, and writers all over the world devoted much labor for over 2,000 years." Rather, Vickers demonstrates, rhetoric was a stylized representation of language and human feelings. Vickers supplements his argument through analyses of the rhetorical and emotional structure of four Renaissance poems. He also defines 16 of the most common figures of rhetoric, citing examples from the classics, the Bible, and major English poets from Chaucer to Pope. |
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... things never said before ' ( Milton's ' Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme ' ) , or ' I owe it to posterity to pass this on ' . And the ' modesty formula ' , which often accompanied the introduction , would include as an excuse ...
... things never said before ' ( Milton's ' Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme ' ) , or ' I owe it to posterity to pass this on ' . And the ' modesty formula ' , which often accompanied the introduction , would include as an excuse ...
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... things , and the mock - encomium of things or qualities had an extremely flourishing existence , from Lucian's Eulogy on a fly or Fronto's on smoke and dust to Swift's Praise of a Broom - stick and beyond . Yet in praising apparently ...
... things , and the mock - encomium of things or qualities had an extremely flourishing existence , from Lucian's Eulogy on a fly or Fronto's on smoke and dust to Swift's Praise of a Broom - stick and beyond . Yet in praising apparently ...
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... things said just that way many times ' . ( 495 ) This is a perceptive comment on the psychological origin of rhetorical figures , but it will be my contention that all rhetorical figures are in fact ' modes of the expression of feeling ...
... things said just that way many times ' . ( 495 ) This is a perceptive comment on the psychological origin of rhetorical figures , but it will be my contention that all rhetorical figures are in fact ' modes of the expression of feeling ...
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Preface | 11 |
A CONCISE HISTORY OF RHETORIC | 43 |
THE PROCESSES OF RHETORIC | 61 |
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