Rhetoric and Renaissance Culture

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Walter de Gruyter, 2004 - Art - 581 pages
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.

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Contents

Introduction Renaissance Culturology and Renaissance Rhetoric
1
AScope and Genres of Renaissance Rhetoric
11
BPoetica Rhetorica Rhetorical Poetics in the Renaissance
85
CIntermedial Rhetoric
295
DPoeta Orator Shakespeare as Orator Poet
413
EIconography of Rhetoric and Eloquence
499
I Names
555
II Subjects
565
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Heinrich F. Plett is full professor (chair) of English literature at the University of Essen, Germany, and director of the Centre for Rhetoric and Renaissance Studies at Essen University. Heinrich F. Plett ist Ordinarius für Anglistik an der Universität Essen und Direktor des Zentrums für Rhetorik- und Renaissance-Studien an der Universität Essen.

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