Rhetoric and Renaissance Culture
β Scribed by Heinrich F. Plett
- Publisher
- De Gruyter
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 597
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
Since Jacob Burckhardt's Kultur der Renaissance in Italien (1869) rhetoric as a significant cultural factor of the renaissance has largely been neglected. The present study seeks to remedy this deficit regarding the arts by concentrating on literary theory and its aspects of imagination (inventio), genre (dispositio of the genera), style (elocutio), mnemonic architecture (memoria) and representation (actio), with illustrative examples taken from Shakespeare's works, but also on the intermedial rhetoric of painting and music. Particular attention is given to the rhetorical ideology of the Renaissance.
β¦ Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction
A. Scope and Genres of Renaissance Rhetoric
B. Poetica Rhetorica
C. Intermedial Rhetoric
D. Poeta Orator: Shakespeare as Orator Poet
E. Iconography of Rhetoric and Eloquence
Backmatter
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