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 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 for four periods in Western culture: Roman antiquity, the High Middle Ages, the Age of Montaigne, and our present, post-9/11 moment. In so doing, she reasserts the fundamental importance of rhetoric, the art of speaking well.>

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Spence, SPENCE SARAH
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.05.2007
• EAN: 9780715635131
• ISBN: 978-0-7156-3513-1
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 233 mm x 11 mm
• Series: Classical Inter/faces; Classical Inter/Faces
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics