Rhetoric and poetics in antiquity / Jeffrey Walker.

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Walker, Jeffrey, 1949-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 396 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

1423738799
9781423738794
9780195130355
0195130359
1280472480
9781280472480

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Rhetoric and poetics in antiquity.DDC classification:

808/.00938 21

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PA3265 .W35 2000eb

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Contents:

Before the beginnings: Hesiod on eloquence -- The emergence of Poiêsis, logos and Rhêtorikê -- Hellenistic rhetoric -- "Rhetoric" from Cicero to the second sophistic -- Theognis' Octopus: on poetry as rhetorical transaction -- Lyric enthymemes -- A "truest paradigm for Western Lyric": Pindar Isthmian 3, and Olympian 1 -- Argumentation indoors: Alcaeus and Sappho -- Solon sophôtatos: on lyric argument maximal and minimal -- Aristotelianism and grammar -- Toward modernity.

Summary: This book offers a counter-traditional account of the history of both rhetoric and poetics. In reply to traditional rhetorical histories, which view "rhetoric" as an art of practical civic oratory, the book argues in four extended essays that epideictic-poetic eloquence was central, even fundamental, to the rhetorical tradition in antiquity. In essence, Walker's study accomplishes what in the world of rhetoric studies amounts to a revolution: he demonstrates that in antiquity rhetoric and poetry could not be viewed separately.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-386) and index.

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This book offers a counter-traditional account of the history of both rhetoric and poetics. In reply to traditional rhetorical histories, which view "rhetoric" as an art of practical civic oratory, the book argues in four extended essays that epideictic-poetic eloquence was central, even fundamental, to the rhetorical tradition in antiquity. In essence, Walker's study accomplishes what in the world of rhetoric studies amounts to a revolution: he demonstrates that in antiquity rhetoric and poetry could not be viewed separately.

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