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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Strana 57
... tion of rhetoric and poetic continues ( Jack , 2-3 ) , for Horace's borrowing from Cicero ( aut prodesse aut delectare ) remains the aim or end of both arts ( Stone , 16-18 ) , as expressed most concisely by Dr Johnson : ' The end of ...
... tion of rhetoric and poetic continues ( Jack , 2-3 ) , for Horace's borrowing from Cicero ( aut prodesse aut delectare ) remains the aim or end of both arts ( Stone , 16-18 ) , as expressed most concisely by Dr Johnson : ' The end of ...
Strana 62
... tion in the mind of the matter , words , and arrangement . Delivery is the graceful regulation of voice , countenance , and gesture . ( 1.2.3 ) The last two stages clearly belong to spoken oratory , and I shall not be considering them ...
... tion in the mind of the matter , words , and arrangement . Delivery is the graceful regulation of voice , countenance , and gesture . ( 1.2.3 ) The last two stages clearly belong to spoken oratory , and I shall not be considering them ...
Strana 96
... tion is not the only method : ' Brevity is so useful in this style that it is even more forceful not to say something , as when Demosthenes says : " Now I might remark - but I myself certainly do not wish to say anything offensive , and ...
... tion is not the only method : ' Brevity is so useful in this style that it is even more forceful not to say something , as when Demosthenes says : " Now I might remark - but I myself certainly do not wish to say anything offensive , and ...
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Preface | 11 |
A CONCISE HISTORY OF RHETORIC | 43 |
THE PROCESSES OF RHETORIC | 61 |
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