Enargeia in classical antiquity and the early modern age [electronic resource] : the aesthetics of evidence / by Heinrich F. Plett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Plett, Heinrich F.

Series:

International studies in the history of rhetoric ; v. 4.

International studies in the history of rhetoric, 1865-1148 ; vol. 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and literature.

Greek literature--Influence.

Greek literature.

Latin literature--Influence.

Latin literature.

Rhetoric, Ancient.

Ut pictura poesis (Aesthetics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (252 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The present study provides an extensive treatment of the topic of enargeia on the basis of the classical and humanist sources of its theoretical foundation. These serve as the basis for detailed analyses of verbal and pictorial works of the Classical Antiquity and the Early Modern Age. Their theoretical basis is the tradition of classical rhetoric with its principal representatives (Aristotle, Cicero, Quintilian) and their reception history. The ‘enargetic’ approach to the arts may be described as rhetoric of presence and display, or aesthetics of evidence and imagination. Visual imagination plays a major role in the concepts of effect in oratory, poetry, and drama of the Classical Antiquity and the Early Modern Age. Its implementations are manifested in the Second Sophistic and in the Early Modern Age, there above all in the works of William Shakespeare.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction

Prologue

I Classical Sources and Their Humanist Reception

II Enargeia in Humanist Writings and Its Theoretical Foundation

III Shakespeare and Enargeia (A)

IV Ekphraseis of Places and Pictures

V Enargetic Representations of Persons

VI The Poetics of Ekphrasis and Enargeia

VII Enargeia in Teichoscopy and Messenger’s Report

VIII Shakespeare and Enargeia (B)

IX Enargeia in Operatic Libretti

X Enargeia in Mnemonics and Meditation

XI Enargeia and the Visual Arts

XII Ut Pictura Poesis

XIII Enargeia and Perspective

XIV Shakespeare and Enargeia (C)

XV Enargeia in Theory and Practice of the Visual and Verbal Arts

XVI The Enargeia of Music in Theory and Practice

Epilogue

Bibliography: ‘Enargeia’ and Related Terms

Index of Names

Index of Subjects.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-57902-2

9786613891471

90-04-23118-8

OCLC:

809212839

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004231184 DOI