"Silent rhetoric", "dumb eloquence"
Subtitle: the rhetoric of silence in early modern English literature
By: dirigé par Laetitia Coussement-Boillot et Christine Sukic
Contributors: Sukič, Christine
Publisher: Université Paris Diderot
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9782902937431
Subjects: Silence in literature; Rhetoric; English literature; History and criticism
Notes: "Cahiers Charles V, No 43, 2007."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Silence as a rhetorical tool: The Medusa of eloquence: Jonson's Catiline, or his conspiracy / Lynn S. Meskill. "Oratio nostra est silentium": silence in George Herbert's holy rhetoric / Anne-Marie Miller Blaise; title: Silences and omissions as components of poetics/aesthetics: From pageant to text: the silent discourse of Heywood's omissions / Charlotte Coffin. "Things uttered to my selfe and consecrated to silence": Samuel Daniel's silent rhetoric / Christine Sukic; title: Silence and the other: "Devils coated in the shapes of men": the dumb shows in The Stukeley plays / Ladan Niayesh. "A kind of excellent dumb discourse", langue des signes et éloquence naturelle dans le nouveau monde: The world encompassed / Sophie Lemercier-Goddard; title: Verbal silence and other art forms: Praesentia in absentia ou l'éloquent silence du corps de l'emblème mythologique dans Titus Andronicus / Agnès Lafont. La musique comme "rhétorique muette" dans la littérature théorique et dramatique de la Renaissance anglaise / Claire Bardelmann. "In silent wonder of still-gazing eyes": l'enargeia dans les poèmes narratifs de William Shakespeare / Laetitia Coussement-Boillot.