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Record Nr.

UNINA9910220025503321

Titolo

Rhetoric and drama / / edited by D.S. Mayfield

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

3-11-048466-8

3-11-048500-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 243 pages)

Disciplina

808

Soggetti

Rhetoric - History

Drama - Technique

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Preface -- Interplay with Variation: Approaching Rhetoric and Drama / Mayfield, D S -- Case Studies -- From the Refutation of Drama to the Drama of Refutation / Eden, Kathy -- The Castrato as a Rhetorical Figure / Feldman, Martha -- Family, City or State, and Theater: Carlo Gozzi and the Rhetoric of Conservatism / Stampino, Maria Galli -- Rhetoric and Early Modern Latin Drama. The Two Tragedies by the 'Polish Pindar' Simon Simonides (1558-1629): Castus Ioseph and Pentesilea / Bloemendal, Jan -- Verse Games. Meter and Interactional German in the Baroque Plays of Andreas Gryphius / Wesche, Jörg -- Rhetoric and the Cultural Net: Transnational Agencies of Culture / Küpper, Joachim -- Appendix -- Drama / Asmuth, Bernhard -- Proceedings / Mayfield, D S -- Contributors -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Proving fruitful in various applications throughout its two millennia of predominance, the rhetorical téchne appears to have entertained a particularly symbiotic interrelation with drama. With contributions from (among others) a Classicist, historical, linguistic, musicological, operatic, cultural and literary studies perspective, this publication offers interdisciplinary assessments of specific reciprocities between the system of rhetoric and dramatic works: tracing the longue durée of



this nexus-highlighting its Ancient foundations, its various Early Modern formations, as well as certain configurations enduring to this day-enables describing shifting degrees of rhetoricity; approaching it from an interdisciplinary viewpoint facilitates focusing on the often sidelined rhetorical phenomena located beyond the textual plane, specifically memoria and actio; tackling this interchange from various viewpoints and with diverse emphases, a long-lasting and highly prolific cross-fertilization between drama and rhetoric is rendered visible. In tendering a balanced panorama of both detailed case studies and descriptive overviews, this volume also points toward terrain yet to be charted in the scholarship to come. The volume was prepared in co-operation with the ERC Advanced Grant Project Early Modern European Drama and the Cultural Net (DramaNet).