Author : Joseph M. Miller
Publisher :
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 32,35 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
This authoritative anthology puts to rest the general impression that traditional rhetoric had little impact during the years between the death of St. Augustine and Bracciolini's rediscovery of Quintilian. It covers 36 rhetorical treatises.
Author : Patricia P. Matsen
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 29,71 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780809315932
Here, for the first time in one volume, are all the extant writings focusing on rhetoric that were composed before the fall of Rome. This unique anthology of primary texts in classical rhetoric contains the work of 24 ancient writers from Homer through St. Augustine, including Herodotus, Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Quintilian, Tacitus, and Longinus. Along with many widely recognized translations, special features include the first English translations of works by Theon and Nicolaus, as well as new translations of two works by important sophists, Gorgias' encomium on Helen and Alcidamas' essay on composition. The writers are grouped chronologically into historical periods, allowing the reader to understand the scope and significance of rhetoric in antiquity. Introductions are included to each period, as well as to each writer, with writers' biographies, major works, and salient features of excerpts.
Author : Suzanne Reynolds
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,48 MB
Release : 2004-07-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780521604529
This book argues for a radically new approach to the history of reading and literacy in the Middle Ages.
Author : Georgiana Donavin
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,87 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Literature, Medieval
ISBN : 9782503531496
The book series Disputatio publishes interdisciplinary scholarship on the intellectual cultural and intellectual history of the European Middle Ages. The medieval focus is construed broadly to encompass a chronology ranging from the end of the classical Roman age to the rise of the modern world. Disputatio seeks to promote scholarly dialogue among the various disciplines that study medieval texts and ideas and their diffusion and reception.
Author : Joseph M. Miller
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,79 MB
Release :
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780835766906
This authoritative anthology puts to rest the general impression that traditional rhetoric had little impact during the years between the death of St. Augustine and Bracciolini's rediscovery of Quintilian. It covers 36 rhetorical treatises.
Author : Anna Roberts
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 26,75 MB
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813063701
This volume brings together specialists from different areas of medieval literary study to focus on the role of habits of thought in shaping attitudes toward women during the Middle Ages. The essays range from Old English literature to the Spanish Inquisition and encompass such genres as romance, chronicles, hagiography, and legal documents.
Author : Jody Enders
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,77 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801487835
Why did medieval dramatists weave so many scenes of torture into their plays? Exploring the cultural connections among rhetoric, law, drama, literary creation, and violence, Jody Enders addresses an issue that has long troubled students of the Middle Ages. Theories of rhetoric and law of the time reveal, she points out, that the ideology of torture was a widely accepted means for exploiting such essential elements of the stage and stagecraft as dramatic verisimilitude, pity, fear, and catharsis to fabricate truth. Analyzing the consequences of torture for the history of aesthetics in general and of drama in particular, Enders shows that if the violence embedded in the history of rhetoric is acknowledged, we are better able to understand not only the enduring "theater of cruelty" identified by theorists from Isidore of Seville to Antonin Artaud, but also the continuing modern devotion to the spectacle of pain.
Author : George A. Kennedy
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 25,72 MB
Release : 2003-07-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0807861138
Since its original publication by UNC Press in 1980, this book has provided thousands of students with a concise introduction and guide to the history of the classical tradition in rhetoric, the ancient but ever vital art of persuasion. Now, George Kennedy offers a thoroughly revised and updated edition of Classical Rhetoric and Its Christian and Secular Tradition. From its development in ancient Greece and Rome, through its continuation and adaptation in Europe and America through the Middle Ages and Renaissance, to its enduring significance in the twentieth century, he traces the theory and practice of classical rhetoric through history. At each stage of the way, he demonstrates how new societies modified classical rhetoric to fit their needs. For this edition, Kennedy has updated the text and the bibliography to incorporate new scholarship; added sections relating to women orators and rhetoricians throughout history; and enlarged the discussion of rhetoric in America, Germany, and Spain. He has also included more information about historical and intellectual contexts to assist the reader in understanding the tradition of classical rhetoric.
Author : James Jerome Murphy
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,23 MB
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780802066596
The history of medieval rhetoric can be understood only as part of medieval efforts to understand the manifold uses of language.
Author : Elaine Treharne
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 30,66 MB
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0191613592
The study of medieval literature has experienced a revolution in the last two decades, which has reinvigorated many parts of the discipline and changed the shape of the subject in relation to the scholarship of the previous generation. 'New' texts (laws and penitentials, women's writing, drama records), innovative fields and objects of study (the history of the book, the study of space and the body, medieval masculinities), and original ways of studying them (the Sociology of the Text, performance studies) have emerged. This has brought fresh vigour and impetus to medieval studies, and impacted significantly on cognate periods and areas. The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English brings together the insights of these new fields and approaches with those of more familiar texts and methods of study, to provide a comprehensive overview of the state of medieval literature today. It also returns to first principles in posing fundamental questions about the nature, scope, and significance of the discipline, and the directions that it might take in the next decade. The Handbook contains 44 newly commissioned essays from both world-leading scholars and exciting new scholarly voices. Topics covered range from the canonical genres of Saints' lives, sermons, romance, lyric poetry, and heroic poetry; major themes including monstrosity and marginality, patronage and literary politics, manuscript studies and vernacularity are investigated; and there are close readings of key texts, such as Beowulf, Wulf and Eadwacer, and Ancrene Wisse and key authors from Ælfric to Geoffrey Chaucer, Langland, and the Gawain Poet.
