02930nam 2200637Ia 450 991082506570332120200520144314.01-317-14536-41-315-57899-91-317-14535-61-282-05433-397866120543340-7546-9330-9(CKB)1000000000724215(EBL)438979(OCoLC)322349713(SSID)ssj0000294844(PQKBManifestationID)11223505(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000294844(PQKBWorkID)10332208(PQKB)10384043(Au-PeEL)EBL438979(CaPaEBR)ebr10281394(CaONFJC)MIL918997(MiAaPQ)EBC438979(FINmELB)ELB161208(EXLCZ)99100000000072421520080813d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEkphrasis, imagination and persuasion in ancient rhetorical theory and practice /Ruth Webb1st ed.Aldershot, Hants, England ;Burlington, VT Ashgate20091 online resource (253 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7546-6125-3 Includes bibliographical references.Cover; Contents; List of Tables; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; 1. The Contexts of Ekphrasis; 2. Learning Ekphrasis: The Progymnasmata; 3. The Subjects of Ekphrasis; 4. Enargeia: Making Absent Things Present; 5. Phantasia: Memory, Imagination and the Gallery of the Mind; 6. Ekphrasis and the Art of Persuasion; 7. The Poetics of Ekphrasis: Fiction, Illusion and Meta-ekphrasis; Conclusion; Appendix A: Translations; Appendix B: Subjects for Ekphrasis; Bibliography; IndexThis is a study of ekphrasis, the art of making listeners and readers 'see' in their imagination through words alone, as taught in ancient rhetorical schools and as used by Greek writers of the Imperial period (2nd-6th centuries CE). The author places the practice of ekphrasis within its cultural context, emphasising the importance of the visual imagination in ancient responses to rhetoric, poetry and historiography. By linking the theoretical writings on ekphrasis with ancient theories of imagination and emotion and language, she brings out the persuasive and emotive function of vivid languagEkphrasisRhetoric, AncientEkphrasis.Rhetoric, Ancient.808/.0481809.93357Webb Ruth1963-1685319MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910825065703321Ekphrasis, imagination and persuasion in ancient rhetorical theory and practice4057379UNINA