LANDMARK ESSAYS ON RHETORIC AND LITERATURE : volume 16
This volume addresses the close connections between the study of rhetoric and the study of literature. Arranged chronologically, there are two essays for each of the six major periods: antiquity, the Middle Ages; the Renaissance; the 17th century; the 18th century; and the 19th and 20th centuries.
Print Book, English, 2017
ROUTLEDGE, [Place of publication not identified], 2017
History
1 volume
9781138465497, 1138465496
995767969
Contents: C. Kallendorf, Introduction. Part I: Antiquity. C.S. Baldwin, Rhetoric in Ancient Criticism of Poetic. G. Williams, Figures of Thought in Roman Poetry: Theoretical Considerations. Part II: Middle Ages. E.R. Curtius, Poetry and Rhetoric. J. Enders, Dramatic Rhetoric and Rhetorical Drama: Orators and Actors. Part III: Renaissance (Including Shakespeare). O.B. Hardison, Jr., Rhetoric, Poetics, and the Theory of Praise. C. Kallendorf, King Lear and the Figures of Speech. Part IV: Seventeenth Century. M.W. Croll, Attic Prose: Lipsius, Montaigne, Bacon. T.O. Sloane, The Disintegration of Humanist Rhetoric. Part V: Eighteenth Century. C.A. Beaumont, Swift's Rhetoric in A Modest Proposal. G. McClish, Henry Fielding, the Novel, and Classical Legal Rhetoric. Part VI: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. B. Vickers, Rhetoric and the Modern Novel. K. Burke, The Range of Rhetoric.