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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787013503321

Autore

Zoran Gabriel

Titolo

Bodies of speech : text and textuality in Aristotle / / by Gabriel Zoran

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4438-6897-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Collana

Texts and Embodiments in Perspective

Disciplina

028.9

Soggetti

Books and reading

Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)

Literature - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF TABLES AND ILLUSTRATIONS; PREFACE; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; INTERIM DISCUSSION; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; EPILOGUE; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Until Plato, poetry and oration were conceived as oral activities; writing, if considered at all, was conceived as a kind of ""tape-recorder"". Aristotle was the first thinker who examined the products of the literate culture in which he lived as such: he conceived the works of poetry and oration not only as oral events, but also as written texts. Bodies of Speech reads Aristotle's Poetics and Rhetoric through this assumption, and shows how both are underlain by a systematic text theory, which ...