| Figuratively Speaking: Rhetoric and Culture from Quintilian to the Twin Towers Contributor(s): Spence, Sarah (Author) |
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ISBN: 0715635131 ISBN-13: 9780715635131 Publisher: Bristol Classical Press OUR PRICE: $36.58 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2007 Annotation: 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 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. |
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| BISAC Categories: - History | Ancient - General - Social Science | Popular Culture |
| Dewey: 808.001 |
| Series: Classical Inter/Faces |
| Physical Information: 0.45" H x 6.06" W x 9.17" (0.50 lbs) 160 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) |
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| Publisher Description: 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 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Spence, Sarah: - Sarah Spence is Professor of Classics at the University of Georgia. |