Figuratively Speaking: Rhetoric and Culture from Quintilian to the Twin TowersBloomsbury Academic, 2007 M05 25 - 160 páginas 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. |
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... rules for getting a date but seems to have no luck in finding the perfect love himself . What becomes apparent through the course of the film , however , is that his principles in general don't work , for others as well as for himself ...
... rule ... by wise counsel and authority are to be deemed far superior ... to those who take no part at all in the business of government ' ( 1.2.3 ) .3 Cicero's understanding of rhetoric as the art of speaking well lies at the heart of ...
... rule rather than the exception , and the priorities Aeneas argues for here had become reversed . The place for battle , in the Roman world , occurs in the space between speeches . This scene in the Iliad , then , can be seen not only as ...
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Acknowledgements 7 | 9 |
Repetition versus Replication | 19 |
Figures of Speech and Thought in | 39 |
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