Figuratively Speaking (eBook)

Rhetoric and Culture from Quintilian to the Twin Towers

Sarah Spence (Autor)

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2013
160 Seiten
Bloomsbury Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-84966-756-2 (ISBN)

Infos

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 for four periods in Western culture: Roman antiquity, the High Middle Ages, the Age of Montaigne, and our present, post-9/11 moment. In so doing, she reasserts the fundamental importance of rhetoric, the art of speaking well.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.11.2013
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 1-84966-756-X / 184966756X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-84966-756-2 / 9781849667562