Rhetoric and Renaissance Culture

"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.

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.

Year

2004

Language

English

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter

Editions

1

Pages

596

ISBN

9783110174618

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