Rhetoric and Renaissance Culture

Rhetoric and Renaissance Culture
ISBN-10
3110201895
ISBN-13
9783110201895
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
596
Language
English
Published
2004-01-01
Publisher
Walter de Gruyter
Author
Heinrich F. Plett

Description

Since Jacob 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 (inventio), genre (dispositio of the genera), style (elocutio), mnemonic architecture (memoria) and representation (actio), 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.

Similar books