Rhetoric and Rhythm in Byzantium - The Sound of Persuasion

Informationen zum Autor Vessela Valiavitcharska is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her interests lie in classical and Byzantine rhetoric and pedagogy, medieval scholia and rhetorical commentaries, rhetoric and poetics, and textual criticism. Klappentext A study of the presence and effects of rhythm in Byzantine rhetoric, its musical qualities, and its function in argumentation. Zusammenfassung This book positions medieval Byzantine rhetorical rhythm at the intersection of prose and poetry and offers an analysis of its role in argumentation and persuasion. It also highlights little-known rhetorical theory and seeks to recover the importance of rhythm in rhetorical education in antiquity and the medieval period! and for rhetoric in general. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: why rhythm? 1. Meter and rhythm in Byzantine eyes: Hellenistic traditions and Byzantine theory; 2. Between prose and poetry: 'Asianic' rhythms, accentual poetry, and the Byzantine festal homily; 3. Dirhythmia in the Byzantine classroom; 4. Argument, figure, and rhythm; 5. Rhythm in translation: some evidence from Old Church Slavonic homilies; Conclusion: why recover rhythm?; Appendix A. Text comparison: corpus and methodology; Appendix B. Tables and flow charts.

Product details

• Authors: Vessela Valiavitcharska, Vessela (University of Maryland Valiavitcharska, Valiavitcharska Vessela
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.08.2013
• EAN: 9781107037366
• ISBN: 978-1-107-03736-6
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music; Music, Ancient Greece, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, Ancient World, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Ancient Rome, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, Historical & comparative linguistics, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE