Figuring style : the legacy of Renaissance rhetoric /
Christiansen, Nancy.
Includes bibliography and index.
Introduction: the philosophy of style in the renaissance rhetorical curriculum -- Competing views of style -- Additional contexts: philosophical, historical, methodological -- The comprehensiveness of figures -- Style as form, form as figure -- Implications -- A new definition of figure -- Style as invention/invention as style -- Discourse, a web of schemes -- Rhetoric, the umbrella of the communication arts -- The question of the plain style -- The figurative nature of mind -- The figurative nature of human behavior -- Functions of figures and styles: tools and mirrors -- Figure/style/text as performance -- Figure/style/text as argument: both tool of persuasion and mirror of mind -- Figures and styles as assertions -- Figures and styles as emotional expressions -- Figures and styles as characters -- Ethics, the center of style -- Conclusion: the figure as utterance -- Stylistic analysis -- Satan in paradise lost -- Shakespeare's sonnet 129 -- Titus in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus -- Appendix 1: a handlist of the figures -- Appendix 2: a chronology of sources -- Appendix 3: an alphabetical listing of the figures -- Appendix 4: the figures and the elements of the curriculum.
Rhetoric, Renaissance