Rhetoric and Renaissance Culture
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 596
ISBN-13: 9783110174618
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; General
First sentence: In 1648 an anonymous Latin romance published in London under the title Nova Solyma (New Jerusalem) contained a chapter (III.ii) in which symbolical prize pens are awarded to the best students by a college tutor.
Description: "Since Jaco Burckhardt's Kultur der Renaissance in Italien (1869) rhetoric as a significant cultural factor of the renaissance has largely been neglected. The present study seeks to remedy this deficit regarding the arts by concentrating on literary theory and its aspects of imagination, genre, style, mnemonic architecture and representation, with illustrative examples taken from Shakespeare's works, but also on the intermedial rhetoric of painting and music. Particular attention is given to the rhetorical ideology of the Renaissance."--Jacket.