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

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 cul...

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1. Verfasser: Spence, Sarah, 1954-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012.
Schriftenreihe:Classical inter/faces.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (145 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781849667555
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