Enargeia in Classical Antiquity and the Early Modern Age - The Aesthetics of Evidence

The present study provides an extensive treatment of the topic of enargeia on the basis of the classical and humanist sources of its theoretical foundation. These serve as the basis for detailed analyses of verbal and pictorial works of the Classical Antiquity and the Early Modern Age.

About the author

Heinrich F. Plett was Professor of English at the University of Essen (1972-2004) where he founded the Center for Rhetoric and Renaissance Studies. He co-founded the International Society for the History of Rhetoric in 1977. He has organized many conferences on rhetoric, poetics, and Renaissance literature and has published extensively on the same topics.

Product details

• Authors: Heinrich F Plett, Heinrich F. Plett
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.08.2012
• EAN: 9789004227026
• ISBN: 978-90-04-22702-6
• No. of pages: 252
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 241 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 499 g
• Series: International Studies in the H
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics