1st Edition
Landmark Essays on Rhetoric and Literature Volume 16
Edited By Craig Kallendorf
Copyright 1999
264 Pages
by
Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
267 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Contents: C. Kallendorf, Introduction. Part I:Antiquity. C.S. Baldwin, Rhetoric in Ancient Criticism of Poetic. G. Williams, Figures of Thought in Roman Poetry: Theoretical Considerations. Part II:Middle Ages. E.R. Curtius, Poetry and Rhetoric. J. Enders, Dramatic Rhetoric and Rhetorical Drama: Orators and Actors. Part III:Renaissance (Including Shakespeare). O.B. Hardison, Jr., Rhetoric, Poetics, and the Theory of Praise. C. Kallendorf, King Lear and the Figures of Speech. Part IV:Seventeenth Century. M.W. Croll, Attic Prose: Lipsius, Montaigne, Bacon. T.O. Sloane, The Disintegration of Humanist Rhetoric. Part V:Eighteenth Century. C.A. Beaumont, Swift's Rhetoric in "A Modest Proposal." G. McClish, Henry Fielding, the Novel, and Classical Legal Rhetoric. Part VI:Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. B. Vickers, Rhetoric and the Modern Novel. K. Burke, The Range of Rhetoric.
Biography
Craig Kallendorf
