Figuratively Speaking : Rhetoric and Culture from Quintilian to the Twin Towers PDF
by Professor Sarah Spence
Part of the Classical Inter/Faces series
Description
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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- Pages:160 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:20/11/2013
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- ISBN:9781849667555
