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A History of Renaissance Rhetoric 1380-1620

By Peter Mack

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
2011
ISBN
0199597286, 9780199597284
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1818411 bytes)
Pages
356\356
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00
Языки и языкознание;Риторика;История риторики

Description

This is the first comprehensive History of Renaissance Rhetoric. Rhetoric, a training in writing and delivering speeches, was a fundamental part of renaissance culture and education. It is concerned with a wide range of issues, connected with style, argument, self-presentation, the arousal of emotion, voice and gesture. More than 3,500 works on rhetoric were published in a total of over 15,000 editions between 1460 and 1700. The renaissance was a great age of innovation in rhetorical theory. This book shows how renaissance scholars recovered and circulated classical rhetoric texts, how they absorbed new doctrines from Greek rhetoric, and how they adapted classical rhetorical teaching to fit modern conditions. It traces the development of specialised manuals in letter-writing, sermon composition and style, alongside accounts of the major Latin treatises in the field by Lorenzo Valla, George Trapezuntius, Rudolph Agricola, Erasmus, Philip Melanchthon, Johann Sturm, Juan Luis Vives, Peter Ramus, Cyprien Soarez, Justus Lipsius, Gerard Vossius and many others.

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