Rhetoric and drama / edited by D.S. Mayfield.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mayfield, DS, Editor.

Contributor:

Mayfield, D. S. (Daniel Scott), 1984- editor.

European Research Council (ERC), Funder.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rhetoric--History.

Rhetoric.

Drama--Technique.

Drama.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 243 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Daniel Scott Mayfield, Freie Universität Berlin.

Summary:

Proving fruitful in various applications throughout its two millennia of predominance, the rhetorical téchne appears to have entertained a particularly symbiotic interrelation with drama. With contributions from (among others) a Classicist, historical, linguistic, musicological, operatic, cultural and literary studies perspective, this publication offers interdisciplinary assessments of specific reciprocities between the system of rhetoric and dramatic works: tracing the longue durée of this nexus-highlighting its Ancient foundations, its various Early Modern formations, as well as certain configurations enduring to this day-enables describing shifting degrees of rhetoricity; approaching it from an interdisciplinary viewpoint facilitates focusing on the often sidelined rhetorical phenomena located beyond the textual plane, specifically memoria and actio; tackling this interchange from various viewpoints and with diverse emphases, a long-lasting and highly prolific cross-fertilization between drama and rhetoric is rendered visible. In tendering a balanced panorama of both detailed case studies and descriptive overviews, this volume also points toward terrain yet to be charted in the scholarship to come. The volume was prepared in co-operation with the ERC Advanced Grant Project Early Modern European Drama and the Cultural Net (DramaNet).

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgements

Contents

Preface

Interplay with Variation: Approaching Rhetoric and Drama / Mayfield, D S

Case Studies

From the Refutation of Drama to the Drama of Refutation / Eden, Kathy

The Castrato as a Rhetorical Figure / Feldman, Martha

Family, City or State, and Theater: Carlo Gozzi and the Rhetoric of Conservatism / Stampino, Maria Galli

Rhetoric and Early Modern Latin Drama. The Two Tragedies by the 'Polish Pindar' Simon Simonides (1558-1629): Castus Ioseph and Pentesilea / Bloemendal, Jan

Verse Games. Meter and Interactional German in the Baroque Plays of Andreas Gryphius / Wesche, Jörg

Rhetoric and the Cultural Net: Transnational Agencies of Culture / Küpper, Joachim

Appendix

Drama / Asmuth, Bernhard

Proceedings / Mayfield, D S

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

3-11-048466-8

3-11-048500-1

OCLC:

1002242662