Rhetoric and Renaissance Culture
Author： Heinrich F. Plett
Publisher： De Gruyter
Publication year： 2004
E-ISBN: 9783110201895
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9783110174618
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Language： ENG
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Description
The volume presents a cultural history of renaissance rhetoric with special emphasis on literary theory with its aspects of imagination (inventio), generictheory (dispositio), style (elocutio), mnemonic architecture (memoria), representation (actio) (with Shakespeare's works as illustrations). Special attention is given to the intermedial rhetoric of painting and music and the rhetorical ideology of culture.
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