Rhetoric and Renaissance Culture
Download or Read eBook Rhetoric and Renaissance Culture PDF written by Heinrich F. Plett and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-08-22 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Heinrich F. Plett |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
| Total Pages | : 598 |
| Release | : 2008-08-22 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9783110201895 |
| ISBN-13 | : 3110201895 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Rhetoric and Renaissance Culture by : Heinrich F. Plett
Book excerpt: 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.
