Figuring style
Subtitle: the legacy of Renaissance rhetoric
By: Nancy L. Christiansen
Series: Studies in rhetoric/communication; Studies in rhetoric/communication
Publisher: The University of South Carolina Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Columbia, South Carolina
Language: eng
Number of pages: 640
ISBN-13: 9781611172409
Subjects: Renaissance Rhetoric; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 611-634) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the philosophy of style in the renaissance rhetorical curriculum; title: Competing views of style; title: Additional contexts: philosophical, historical, methodological; title: The comprehensiveness of figures; title: Style as form, form as figure; title: Implications; title: A new definition of figure; title: Style as invention/invention as style; title: Discourse, a web of schemes; title: Rhetoric, the umbrella of the communication arts; title: The question of the plain style; title: The figurative nature of mind; title: The figurative nature of human behavior; title: Functions of figures and styles: tools and mirrors; title: Figure/style/text as performance; title: Figure/style/text as argument: both tool of persuasion and mirror of mind; title: Figures and styles as assertions; title: Figures and styles as emotional expressions; title: Figures and styles as characters; title: Ethics, the center of style; title: Conclusion: the figure as utterance; title: Stylistic analysis; title: Satan in paradise lost; title: Shakespeare's sonnet 129; title: Titus in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus; title: Appendix 1: a handlist of the figures; title: Appendix 2: a chronology of sources; title: Appendix 3: an alphabetical listing of the figures; title: Appendix 4: the figures and the elements of the curriculum.