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[null,null,"Autore",null,"Spence Sarah <1954->"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"Figuratively speaking : rhetoric and culture from Quintilian to the Twin Towers / / Sarah Spence"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2012"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"1-84966-755-1"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (145 p.)"]
[null,null,"Collana",null,"Classical inter/faces"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"844.3"]
[{"$nulls":4},"844/.3"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Latin language - Figures of speech"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Rhetoric - Philosophy"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Rhetoric - History"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Note generali","Description based upon print version of record."]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references and index."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"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"]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","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"]