Hermogenes and the Renaissance :: seven ideas of style /

Annabel M. Patterson offers here a reassessment of the place of Hermogenes, a Greek rhetorician of the second century A.D., in literary history. She shows that the literary men of the European Renaissance-scholars, critics, and poets-found Hermogenes' Concerning Ideas both important and extreme...

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1. Verfasser: Patterson, Annabel M. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1970.
Schriftenreihe:Princeton legacy library.
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Zusammenfassung:Annabel M. Patterson offers here a reassessment of the place of Hermogenes, a Greek rhetorician of the second century A.D., in literary history. She shows that the literary men of the European Renaissance-scholars, critics, and poets-found Hermogenes' Concerning Ideas both important and extremely useful, and she finds that they vigorously applied his concepts to create ""a lovely conformitie."" The author first gives the history of this treatise on style and a detailed critical analysis of the Seven Ideas or categories of style. The book then demonstrates genre by genre how knowledge of the
Beschreibung:1 online resource (257 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9781400870660
1400870666

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