Shakespeare's Use of the Arts of Language

Portada
Paul Dry Books, 2008 - 423 páginas

“Sister Miriam Joseph's Shakespeare's Use of the Arts of Language remains, after more than half a century, an immensely valuable aid to serious students of the greatest of all writers. The book manifests enormous learning and real wisdom in applying that erudition to the needs of contemporary readers.”—Harold Bloom

“The importance of this book is that it makes clear what we ought to mean when we call Shakespeare an artist in language. . . . The average person today knows two figures of speech if he knows any. . . . Shakespeare knew two hundred.”—Mark Van Doren, New York Herald Tribune

As part of their education in the trivium (the liberal arts of logic, grammar, and rhetoric), grammar school students in Shakespeare's time were taught to recognize the two hundred figures of speech that Renaissance scholars had derived from Latin and Greek sources. Sister Miriam Joseph views this theory of composition as integral to Shakespeare's mastery of language. In her classic 1947 book, she lays out these figures of speech in simple, understandable patterns and explains each one with examples from Shakespeare. Her analysis of his plays and poems illustrates that the Bard knew more about rhetoric than perhaps anyone else.

Dentro del libro

Contenido

Training in the Arts in Renaissance England
8
Invention and Disposition
22
Elocution or Style
31
SHAKESPEAres Use of the Schemes of Grammar VICES
43
THE TOPICS OF INVENTION
90
64
130
III
137
Cause and Effect Antecedent and Consequent
156
The General Theory of Composition and Reading
291
THE TOPICS OF INVENTION
308
Greater Equal Less
329
190
341
ARGUMENTATION
354
PATHOS AND ETHOS
386
BIBLIOGRAPHY
401
203
409

Notation and Conjugates
162
ARGUMENTATION
174

Otras ediciones - Ver todas

Términos y frases comunes

Acerca del autor (2008)

Sister Miriam Joseph (1898–1982) earned her doctorate from Columbia University. A member of the Sisters of the Holy Cross, Sister Miriam was professor of English at Saint Mary’s College from 1931 to 1960. She was also the author of The Trivium.

Información bibliográfica