Rhetoric And The Discourses Of Power In Court Culture
Subtitle: China, Europe, And Japan
Contributors: David R. Knechtges (Editor); Eugene Vance (Editor)
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: March 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9780295984506
Subjects: Asian studies; European studies; History; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; History: World; Japan; Asian - Chinese; Rhetoric; Asia - General; Europe - General; Semiotics & Theory; 221 B.C.-960 A.D; 476-1492; China; Courts and courtiers; Europe
Description: "Key imperial and royal courts - in Han, Tang, and Song dynasty China; medieval and renaissance Europe; and Heian and Muromachi Japan - are examined in this comparative and interdisciplinary volume as loci of power and as entities that establish, influence, or counter the norms of a larger society. Contributions by twelve scholars are organized into sections on the rhetoric of persuasion, taste, communication, gender, and natural nobility. Writing from the perspectives of literature, history, and philosophy, the authors examine the use and purpose of rhetoric in their respective areas."--Jacket.