Figuratively Speaking - 9780715635131
Un libro in lingua di Sarah Spence edito da Intl Pub Marketing Inc, 2007
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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 provides a common denominator among western cultures from Cicero to the present. The central idea is that, in the western tradition, figurative speech - the 'flowers' of rhetoric - provides a fundamental way for language to articulate concerns that define a culture or community. In this study Sarah Spence identifies embedded tropes for four periods in Western culture: Roman antiquity, the High Middle Ages, the age of Montaigne, and our present, post-9/11 moment. In so doing she reasserts the fundamental importance of rhetoric, the art of speaking well.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Figuratively Speaking
- Sottotitolo: Rhetoric And Culture from Quintilian to the Twin Towers
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Sarah Spence
- Editore: Intl Pub Marketing Inc
- Collana: Intl Pub Marketing Inc (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 01 Agosto '07
- Genere: LANGUAGE ARTS and DISCIPLINES
- Argomenti : Rhetoric History Rhetoric Philosophy
- Pagine: 144
- Peso gr: 226
- Dimensioni mm: 228 x 152 x 12
- ISBN-10: 0715635131
- EAN-13: 9780715635131