The Exempla Or Illustrative Stories from the Sermones Vulgares of Jacques de Vitry
Author : Jacques (de Vitry)
Publisher :
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 14,42 MB
Release : 1890
Category : Exempla
ISBN :
Author : Jacques (de Vitry)
Publisher :
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 14,42 MB
Release : 1890
Category : Exempla
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Author : Matthew B. Roller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 41,80 MB
Release : 2018-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1107162599
Presents a coherent model for understanding historical examples in Ancient Rome and their rhetorical, moral and historiographical functions.
Author : Kate Masur
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 25,75 MB
Release : 2010-10-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807899321
An Example for All the Land reveals Washington, D.C. as a laboratory for social policy in the era of emancipation and the Civil War. In this panoramic study, Kate Masur provides a nuanced account of African Americans' grassroots activism, municipal politics, and the U.S. Congress. She tells the provocative story of how black men's right to vote transformed local affairs, and how, in short order, city reformers made that right virtually meaningless. Bringing the question of equality to the forefront of Reconstruction scholarship, this widely praised study explores how concerns about public and private space, civilization, and dependency informed the period's debate over rights and citizenship.
Author : John D. Lyons
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 46,70 MB
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1400860814
Examples, crucial links between discourse and society's view of reality, have until now been largely neglected in literary criticism. In the first book-length study of the rhetoric of example, John Lyons situates this figure by comparing it with more frequently studied tropes such as metaphor and synecdoche, discusses meanings of the terms example and exemplum, and proposes a set of descriptive concepts for the study of example in early modern literature. Tracing its paradoxical nature back to Aristotle's Rhetoric, Lyons shows how exemplary rhetoric is caught between often competing aims of persuasive general statement and accurate representation. In French and Italian texts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries this dual task was rendered still more challenging by a transition to new sources of examples as the age of discovery brought increased emphasis on observation. The writers of this period were aware of a crisis in exemplary rhetoric, a situation in which serious questions were raised about how authors and audience would find a common ground in interpreting representative instances. Lyons's focus on the strategy of example leads to new readings of six major writers--Machiavelli, Marguerite de Navarre, Montaigne, Pascal, Descartes, and Marie de Lafayette. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author :
Publisher : Historiography of Rome and Its
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 11,63 MB
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004499409
From footnote-fodder to intellectual: Valerius Maximus, a generally under-appreciated minor author of the early first century AD emerges as a holder of distinct views on Rome's dynasty, their world, on how to behave within that world, and as an influencer of later thought both pagan and Christian.
Author : Bart Huelsenbeck
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 18,94 MB
Release : 2018-06-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3110388154
The collection of the elder Seneca assembles quotations from scores of declaimers over a period spanning sixty years, from the Augustan Age through the early decades of the empire. A view is offered onto a literary scene, for this critical period of Roman letters, that is numerously populated, highly interactive, and less dominated by just a few canonical authors. Despite this potential, modern readings have often lumped declaimers together en masse and organizational principles basic to Seneca’s collection remain overlooked. This volume attempts to ‘hear’ the individual speech of declaimers by focusing on two speakers—Arellius Fuscus, rhetor to Ovid, and Papirius Fabianus, teacher of the younger Seneca. A key organizing principle, informing both the collection and the practice of declamation, was the ‘shared locus’—a short passage, defined by verbal and argumentative ingredients, that gained currency among declaimers. Study of the operation of the shared locus carries several advantages: (1) we appreciate distinctions between declaimers; (2) we recognize shared passages as a medium of communication; and (3) the shared locus emerges as a community resource, explaining deep-seated connections between declamation and literary works.
Author : Roy Gibson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 28,3 MB
Release : 2011-04-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004210075
Pliny's Naturalis Historia – a brilliant and sophisticated encyclopaedia of the scientific, artistic, philosophical, botanical and zoological riches of the ancient world – has had a long career in the footnotes of historical studies. This is a phenomenon born of the sense that the work was there to consult, or to ‘use’, as a resource to aid investigation of specific technical issues or passages, of Quellenforschung, or of delimited topic areas. The contributors to the present volume both represent and join a new generation of critics who have begun to try to ‘read’ this monumental text, and – by examining the dominant motifs which give shape and order to the work – to construct frameworks within which we may understand and interpret Pliny’s overarching agenda.
Author : Farrar
Publisher :
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 36,26 MB
Release : 1998
Category :
ISBN : 9788170299394
The World Wide Web Has Changed The Way Millions Of People Work And Play And At The Heart Of The Web Is The Hypertext Markup Language (Html). The Html Example Book Provides Explanations And Specific Code To Help You Construct Your Own Web Pages. All Elements In The Internet Draft Of Html Specification Versions 3.0 Are Discussed, Along With Those Supported By Popular Extensions
Author : Alexander C. Murray
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 685 pages
File Size : 33,53 MB
Release : 2015-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9004307001
Gregory, bishop of Tours (573-594), was among the most prolific writers of his age and uniquely managed to cover the genres of history, hagiography, and ecclesiastical instruction. He not only wrote about events (of the secular, spiritual, and even natural variety) but about himself as an actor and witness. Though his work (especially the Histories) has been recycled and studied for centuries, our grasp of an even basic understanding of it, never mind Gregory’s significance in the history of the late antique West, has hardly yet attained a definitive perspective. A Companion to Gregory of Tours brings together fourteen scholars who provide an expert guide to interpreting his works, his period, and his legacy in religious and historical studies. Contributors are: Pascale Bourgain, Roger Collins, John J. Contreni, Stefan Esders, Martin Heinzelmann, Yitzhak Hen, John K. Kitchen, Simon Loseby, Alexander Callander Murray, Patrick Périn, Joachim Pizarro, Helmut Reimitz, Michael Roberts, Richard Shaw.
Author : Victoria Bernhardt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 33,24 MB
Release : 2014-06-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 1317920082
This book presents a prototype school portfolio, along with annotated explanations and suggestions. Although this book describes a hypothetical elementary school, the data and examples come from real schools at which the authors worked, and the recommendations can be applied to any level school engaged in systemic reform.