Figuratively speaking : rhetoric and culture from Quintilian to the Twin Towers / / Sarah Spence

• Autore: Spence Sarah <1954->
• Pubblicazione: London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (145 p.)
• Disciplina: 844.3; 844/.3
• Soggetto topico: Latin language - Figures of speech; Rhetoric - Philosophy; Rhetoric - History
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Figuratively speaking
• ISBN: 1-84966-755-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910790779403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Classical Inter/Faces