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Rhetoric and Renaissance Culture

Author : Heinrich F. Plett
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110174618
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Rhetoric and Renaissance Culture written by Heinrich F. Plett and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2004 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Main description: The volume presents a cultural history of renaissance rhetoric with special emphasis on literary theory with its aspects of imagination (inventio), generictheory (dispositio), style (elocutio), mnemonic architecture (memoria), representation (actio) (with Shakespeare's works as illustrations). Special attention is given to the intermedial rhetoric of painting and music and the rhetorical ideology of culture.

Wit and Rhetoric in the Renaissance

Author : William Garrett Crane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Wit and Rhetoric in the Renaissance written by William Garrett Crane and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defines the term wit as it was used with reference to literary skill in the age of Elizabeth. The study revolves around the close association, during the latter half of the 16th century, between wit and rhetoric.

Wit and Rhetoric in the Renaissance

Author : William Garrett Crane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (253 download)

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Download or read book Wit and Rhetoric in the Renaissance written by William Garrett Crane and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lyric Wonder

Author : James Biester
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801433139
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (331 download)

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Download or read book Lyric Wonder written by James Biester and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Biester sees the shift in late Elizabethan England toward a witty, rough, and obscure lyric style--metaphysical wit and strong lines--as a response to the heightened cultural prestige of wonder. That same prestige was demonstrated in the search for strange artifacts and animals to display in the wonder-cabinets of the period. By embracing the genres of satire and epigram, poets of the Elizabethan court risked their chances for political advancement, exposing themselves to the danger of being classified either as malcontents or as jesters who lacked the gravitas required of those in power. John Donne himself recognized both the risks and benefits of adopting the "admirable" style, as Biester shows in his close readings of the First and Fourth Satyres. Why did courtier-poets adopt such a dangerous form of self-representation? The answer, Biester maintains, lies in an extraordinary confluence of developments in both poetics and the interpenetrating spheres of the culture at large, which made the pursuit of wonder through style unusually attractive, even necessary. In a postfeudal but still aristocratic culture, he says, the ability to astound through language performed the validating function that was once supplied by the ability to fight. Combining the insights of the new historicism with traditional literary scholarship, Biester perceives the rise of metaphysical style as a social as well as aesthetic event.

Wit and Rhetoric in the Renaissance

Author : William G. Crane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780844611358
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book Wit and Rhetoric in the Renaissance written by William G. Crane and published by . This book was released on 1984-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Renaissance Debates on Rhetoric

Author : Wayne A. Rebhorn
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801482069
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Renaissance Debates on Rhetoric written by Wayne A. Rebhorn and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the European Renaissance, authors famous and obscure debated the nature, goals, and value of rhetoric. In a host of treatises, handbooks, letters, and orations, written in both Latin and the vernacular, they attempted to assess the central role that rhetoric clearly played in their culture. Was rhetoric a valuable tool of legitimation for rulers or a dangerous instrument of resistance to political and religious authority? Would its employment maintain the social hierarchy or foster social mobility? Was rhetoric merely the art of lies or was it a means to arrive at the only form of truth available to human beings? In this fascinating volume, Wayne A. Rebhorn enables modern-day readers to follow Renaissance thinkers as they struggle with these and other crucial questions about rhetoric. Arranged chronologically, the twenty-five selections in this anthology, most of which have never before appeared in English, include key texts by Petrarch, Valla, Erasmus, Vives, Melanchthon, Ramus, Wilson, Amyot, and Bacon. All the selections have been fully annotated and have headnotes providing essential background information. In addition, the volume features a biographical glossary of frequently mentioned historical and mythological figures, a comprehensive index, and a detailed bibliography.

Landmark Essays on Rhetoric and Literature

Author : Craig Kallendorf
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351225766
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Landmark Essays on Rhetoric and Literature written by Craig Kallendorf and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The studies of rhetoric and literature have been closely connected on the theoretical level ever since antiquity, and many great works of literature were written by men and women who were well versed in rhetoric. It is therefore well worth investigating exactly what these writers knew about rhetoric and how the practice of literary criticism has been enriched through rhetorical knowledge. The essays reprinted here have been arranged chronologically, with two essays selected for each of six major periods: Antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance (including Shakespeare), the 17th century, the 18th century, and the 19th and 20th centuries. Some are more theoretically oriented, whereas others become exercises in practical criticism. Some cover well-trod ground, whereas others turn to parts of the rhetorical tradition that are often overlooked. Scholars in the field should benefit from having this material collected together and reprinted in one volume, but the essays included here will also be useful to graduate students and advanced undergraduates for course work and general reading. Students of rhetoric seeking to understand how the principles of their field extend into other forms of communication will find this volume of interest, as will students of literature seeking to refine their understanding of the various modes of literary criticism.

A Companion to Renaissance Drama

Author : Arthur F. Kinney
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780631219507
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Renaissance Drama written by Arthur F. Kinney and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2002-06-10 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This expansive, inter-disciplinary guide to Renaissance plays and the world they played to gives readers a colorful overview of England's great dramatic age. Provides an expansive and inter-disciplinary approach to Renaissance plays and the world they played to. Offers a colourful and comprehensive overview of the material conditions of England's most important dramatic period. Gives readers facts and data along with up-to-date interpretation of the plays. Looks at the drama in terms of its cultural agency, its collaborative nature, and its ideological complexity.

The Places of Wit in Early Modern English Comedy

Author : Adam Zucker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107003083
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Places of Wit in Early Modern English Comedy written by Adam Zucker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-10 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of wit, witlessness and social and comic conventions in the plays of Shakespeare, Jonson and their contemporaries.

Classical Rhetoric in English Poetry

Author : Brian Vickers
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809314959
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (149 download)

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Download or read book Classical Rhetoric in English Poetry written by Brian Vickers and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Back in print after 17 years, this is a concise history of rhetoric as it relates to structure, genre, and style, with special reference to English literature and literary criticism from Ancient Greece to the end of the 18th century. The core of the book is a quite original argument that the figures of rhetoric were not mere mechanical devices, were not, as many believed, a "nuisance, a quite sterile appendage to rhetoric to which (unaccountably) teachers, pupils, and writers all over the world devoted much labor for over 2,000 years." Rather, Vickers demonstrates, rhetoric was a stylized representation of language and human feelings. Vickers supplements his argument through analyses of the rhetorical and emotional structure of four Renaissance poems. He also defines 16 of the most common figures of rhetoric, citing examples from the classics, the Bible, and major English poets from Chaucer to Pope.

Humour and Humanism in the Renaissance

Author : Barbara C Bowen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781138375642
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (756 download)

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Download or read book Humour and Humanism in the Renaissance written by Barbara C Bowen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-10 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the articles in this volume, eight concern a world-famous author (François Rabelais); the others are studies of little-known authors (Cortesi, Corrozet, Mercier) or genres (the joke, the apophthegm). The common theme, in all but one, is humour: how it was defined, and how used, by orators and humanists but also by court jesters, princes, peasants and housewives. Though neglected by historians, this subject was of crucial importance to writers as different as Luther, Erasmus, Thomas More and François Rabelais. The book is divided into four sections. 'Humanist Wit' concerns the large and multi-lingual corpus of Renaissance facetiae. The second and third parts focus on French humanist humour, Rabelais in particular, while the last section is titled '"Serious" Humanists' because humour is by no means absent from it. For the Renaissance, as Erasmus and Rabelais amply demonstrate, and as the 'minor' authors studied here confirm, wit, whether affectionate or bitingly satirical, can coexist with, and indeed be inseparable from, serious purpose. Rabelais, as so often, said it best: 'Rire est le propre de l'homme.'

Letter-writing Manuals and Instruction from Antiquity to the Present

Author : Carol Poster
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570036514
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book Letter-writing Manuals and Instruction from Antiquity to the Present written by Carol Poster and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once nearly as ubiquitous as dictionaries and cookbooks are today, letter-writing manuals and their predecessors served to instruct individuals not only on the art of letter composition but also, in effect, on personal conduct. Poster and Mitchell contend that the study of letter-writing theory, which bridges rhetorical theory and grammatical studies, represents an emerging discipline in need of definition. In this volume, they gather the contributions of eleven experts to sketch the contours of epistolary theory and collect the historic and bibliographic materials - from Isocrates to email - that form the basis for its study.

Shakespeare's Use of the Arts of Language

Author : Sister Miriam Joseph
Publisher : Ravenio Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Use of the Arts of Language written by Sister Miriam Joseph and published by Ravenio Books. This book was released on 2016-04-23 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contribution of the present work is to present in organized detail essentially complete the general theory of composition current during the Renaissance (as contrasted with special theories for particular forms of composition) and the illustration of Shakespeare’s use of it. It is organized as follows: Part One: Introduction I. The General Theory of Composition and of Reading in Shakespeare’s England 1. The Concept of Art in Renaissance England 2. Training in the Arts in Renaissance England 3. The English Works on Logic and Rhetoric 4. The Tradition 5. Invention and Disposition Part Two. Shakespeare’s Use of the Theory II. Shakespeare’s Use of the Schemes of Grammar, Vices of Language, and Figures of Repetition 1. The Schemes of Grammar 2. The Vices of Language 3. The Figures of Repetition III. Logos: The Topics of Invention 1. Inartificial Arguments or Testimony 2. Definition 3. Division: Genus and Species, Whole and Parts 4. Subject and Adjuncts 5. Contraries and Contradictories 6. Similarity and Dissimilarity 7. Comparison: Greater, Equal, Less 8. Cause and Effect, Antecedent and Consequent 9. Notation and Conjugates IV. Logos: Argumentation 1. Syllogistic Reasoning 2. Fallacious Reasoning 3. Disputation V. Pathos and Ethos 1. Pathos 2. Ethos Part Three. The General Theory of Composition and Reading as Defined and Illustrated by Tudor Logicians and Rhetoricians VI. Schemes of Grammar, Vices of Language, and Figures of Repetition 1. The Schemes of Grammar 2. Vices of Language VII. Logos: The Topics of Invention 1. Inartificial Arguments or Testimony 2. Definition 3. Division: Genus and Species, Whole and Parts 4. Subject and Adjuncts 5. Contraries and Contradictories 6. Similarity and Dissimilarity 7. Comparison: Greater, Equal, Less 8. Cause and Effect, Antecedent and Consequent 9. Notation and Conjugates 10. Genesis or Composition 11. Analysis or Reading VIII. Logos: Argumentation 1. Syllogistic Reasoning 2. Fallacious Reasoning 3. Disputation IX. Pathos and Ethos 1. Pathos 2. Ethos

Lyric Wonder

Author : James Biester
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501741276
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Lyric Wonder written by James Biester and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Biester sees the shift in late Elizabethan England toward a witty, rough, and obscure lyric style—metaphysical wit and strong lines—as a response to the heightened cultural prestige of wonder. That same prestige was demonstrated in the search for strange artifacts and animals to display in the wonder-cabinets of the period. By embracing the genres of satire and epigram, poets of the Elizabethan court risked their chances for political advancement, exposing themselves to the danger of being classified either as malcontents or as jesters who lacked the gravitas required of those in power. John Donne himself recognized both the risks and benefits of adopting the'admirable'style, as Biester shows in his close readings of the First and Fourth Satyres. Why did courtier-poets adopt such a dangerous form of self-representation? The answer, Biester maintains, lies in an extraordinary confluence of developments in both poetics and the interpenetrating spheres of the culture at large, which made the pursuit of wonder through style unusually attractive, even necessary. In a postfeudal but still aristocratic culture, he says, the ability to astound through language performed the validating function that was once supplied by the ability to fight. Combining the insights of the new historicism with traditional literary scholarship, Biester perceives the rise of metaphysical style as a social as well as aesthetic event.

A Critical Edition of George Whetstone’s 1582 An Heptameron of Civil Discourses

Author : George Whetstone
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429516258
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book A Critical Edition of George Whetstone’s 1582 An Heptameron of Civil Discourses written by George Whetstone and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1987: This edition seeks to make available, for the scholar and the student of Elizabethan literature, an accurate text of an Heptameron of Civill Discourses.

Renaissance Rhetoric

Author : Peter Mack
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349231444
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)

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Download or read book Renaissance Rhetoric written by Peter Mack and published by Springer. This book was released on 1993-12-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides examples of the best modern scholarship on rhetoric in the renaissance. Lawrence Green, Lisa Jardine, Kees Meerhoff, Dilwyn Knox, Brian Vickers, George Hunter, Peter Mack, David Norbrook and Pat Rubin look at the reception of Aristotle's Rhetoric in the renaissance; the place of rhetoric in Erasmus's career, Melanchthon's teaching, and sixteenth century protestant schools; the rhetoric textbook; the use of rhetoric in Raphael, renaissance drama, Elizabethan romance, and seventeenth century political writing. It will become essential reading for advanced studies in English, rhetoric, art history, history, history of education, history of ideas, political theory, and reformation history.

Menippean Satire and the Poetics of Wit

Author : Garry Sherbert
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Menippean Satire and the Poetics of Wit written by Garry Sherbert and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1996 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the prominence given to it recently by Mikhail Bakhtin and Northrop Frye, Menippean satire remains a neglected and misunderstood genre. Focusing on the eighteenth-century writers John Dunton, Thomas D'Urfey, and Laurence Sterne, Menippean Satire and the Poetics of Wit explores the excesses of these eccentric, transgressive writers who take their readers to the limits of language. As the outlaw of genre, Menippean satire exploits the improprieties supplied by a self-conscious use of wit, the principle of exuberance in eighteenth-century poetics. In fact, the exuberance of wit produces Menippean satire's central paradox that self-conscious writers lose their identity in the very pursuit of it. By tracing wit's exuberance through its abusive metaphors, or catachreses, to the abusive ideologies of class and gender, this genre-study provides a literary tradition for the postmodern deconstructive project, including the work of Jacques Derrida.