Renaissance Figures of Speech - Adamson, Sylvia / Alexander, Gavin / Ettenhuber, Katrin / Ettenhuber, Katrin (eds.)
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The Renaissance saw a renewed and energetic engagement with classical rhetoric; recent years have seen a similar revival of interest in Renaissance rhetoric. As Renaissance critics recognised, figurative language is the key area of intersection between rhetoric and literature. This book is the first modern account of Renaissance rhetoric to focus solely on the figures of speech. It reflects a belief that that the figures exemplify the larger concerns of rhetoric, and connect, directly or by analogy, to broader cultural and philosophical concerns within early modern society. Thirteen…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
The Renaissance saw a renewed and energetic engagement with classical rhetoric; recent years have seen a similar revival of interest in Renaissance rhetoric. As Renaissance critics recognised, figurative language is the key area of intersection between rhetoric and literature. This book is the first modern account of Renaissance rhetoric to focus solely on the figures of speech. It reflects a belief that that the figures exemplify the larger concerns of rhetoric, and connect, directly or by analogy, to broader cultural and philosophical concerns within early modern society. Thirteen distinguished contributors have selected a rhetorical figure with a special currency in Renaissance writing, and have used it as a key to one of the period's characteristic modes of perception, forms of argument, states of feeling, or styles of reading.
Autorenporträt
Sylvia Adamson is Professor of English Literature, Language and Linguistics at the University of Sheffield.
Gavin Alexander is Lecturer in the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge.
Katrin Ettenhuber is Fellow and Lecturer in English at Pembroke College, Cambridge.