Figuratively Speaking
Rhetoric and Culture from Quintilian to the Twin Towers
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 antiqu…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-84966-756-2
- EAN: 9781849667562
- Produktnummer: 17038406
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 160 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'894 KB
Über den Autor
Sarah Spence is Professor of Classics at the University of Georgia.
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