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Spence Sarah <1954-> |
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Figuratively speaking : rhetoric and culture from Quintilian to the Twin Towers / / Sarah Spence |
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London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2012 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (145 p.) |
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Collana |
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Soggetti |
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Latin language - Figures of speech |
Rhetoric - Philosophy |
Rhetoric - History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Weapons of Mass Creation: Repetition versus Replication; 2. Looking Back: Figures of Speech and Thought in the Roman World; 3. Dwelling on a Point: Rhetoric and Love in the Middle Ages; 4. The Chiastic Page: The Rhetoric of Montaigne's Essais; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Although rhetoric is a term often associated with lies, this book takes a polemical look at rhetoric as a purveyor of truth. Its purpose is to focus on one aspect of rhetoric, figurative speech, and to demonstrate how the treatment of figures of speech provides a common denominator among western cultures from Cicero to the present. The central idea is that, in the western tradition, figurative speech - using language to do more than name - provides the fundamental way for language to articulate concerns central to each cultural moment. In this study, Sarah Spence identifies the embedded tropes |
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