Figuratively speaking : rhetoric and culture from Quintilian to the Twin Towers / Sarah Spence.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spence, Sarah, 1954-

Series:

Classical Inter/Faces

Classical inter/faces

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin language--Figures of speech.

Latin language.

Rhetoric--Philosophy.

Rhetoric.

Rhetoric--History.

Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592. Essais.

Montaigne, Michel de.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (145 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Weapons of Mass Creation: Repetition versus Replication; 2. Looking Back: Figures of Speech and Thought in the Roman World; 3. Dwelling on a Point: Rhetoric and Love in the Middle Ages; 4. The Chiastic Page: The Rhetoric of Montaigne's Essais; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 20, 2013).

ISBN:

9781849667555

1849667551

OCLC:

862050038