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



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Autore: Spence Sarah <1954-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Figuratively speaking : rhetoric and culture from Quintilian to the Twin Towers / / Sarah Spence Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-84966-755-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910790779403321
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Serie: Classical Inter/Faces