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1 online resource (145 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
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Classical inter/faces
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Classical inter/faces.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592. Essais.
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Essais (Montaigne, Michel de) |
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Latin language -- Figures of speech.
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Latin language -- Figures of speech. |
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Rhetoric -- Philosophy.
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Rhetoric -- Philosophy. |
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Rhetoric -- History.
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Rhetoric. |
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History. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Spence, Sarah. Figuratively Speaking : Rhetoric and Culture from Quintilian to the Twin Towers. London : Bloomsbury Publishing, ©2013 |
| ISBN |
9781849667555 (electronic book) |
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1849667551 (electronic book) |
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