A History of Renaissance Rhetoric 1380-1620

Zusatztext Mack delivers an ambitious history with great acumen, balancing descriptions and readings of discrete works with detailed information about their publication. ... It is a masterful work and an important resource for scholars and students interested in the shapes and capacities of Renaissance humanism and its afterlives. Informationen zum Autor Peter Mack studied at Oxford, the Warburg Institute, University of London, and Rome. He has been editor of the leading international journal Rhetorica and Chair of the English Department and the Arts Faculty at the University of Warwick. From October 2010 he will become Director of the Warburg Institute and Professor of the History of the Classical Tradition. His books include, Renaissance Argument (1993), Elizabethan Rhetoric (2002) and Reading and Rhetoric in Montaigne and Shakespeare (2010). Klappentext This is the first comprehensive history of renaissance rhetoric, an advanced training in the use of language to argue, persuade, and convey information, which was an essential component of renaissance culture, and discusses rhetorical training as well as the opinions on rhetoric of major scholars including Erasmus, Melanchthon, and Sturm. Zusammenfassung This is the first comprehensive history of renaissance rhetoric, an advanced training in the use of language to argue, persuade, and convey information, which was an essential component of renaissance culture, and discusses rhetorical training as well as the opinions on rhetoric of major scholars including Erasmus, Melanchthon, and Sturm.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Mack
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.09.2011
• EAN: 9780199597284
• ISBN: 978-0-19-959728-4
• No. of pages: 345
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Oxford-Warburg Studies; Oxford-Warburg Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; History, HISTORY / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, CE period up to c 1500, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc