Figuratively speaking : rhetoric and culture from Quintilian to the Twin Towers / Sarah Spence.
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 cul...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2012.
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| Series: | Classical inter/faces.
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (145 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781849667555 1849667551 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 20, 2013) |