Rhetoric and poetics in antiquity /
Walker, Jeffrey, 1949-
Rhetoric and poetics in antiquity / Jeffrey Walker. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000. - 1 online resource (xii, 396 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-386) and index.
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.
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.
1423738799 (electronic bk.) 9781423738794 (electronic bk.) 9780195130355 (alk. paper) 0195130359 (alk. paper) 1280472480 9781280472480 (alk. paper)
To 1500
Rhetoric, Ancient.
Classical literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
Poetics--History--To 1500.
Rhétorique ancienne.
Littérature ancienne--Histoire et critique--Théorie, etc.
Poétique.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES--Rhetoric.
REFERENCE--Writing Skills.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES--Composition & Creative Writing.
Poetics.
Rhetoric, Ancient.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
PA3265 / .W35 2000eb
808/.00938
Rhetoric and poetics in antiquity / Jeffrey Walker. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000. - 1 online resource (xii, 396 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-386) and index.
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.
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.
1423738799 (electronic bk.) 9781423738794 (electronic bk.) 9780195130355 (alk. paper) 0195130359 (alk. paper) 1280472480 9781280472480 (alk. paper)
To 1500
Rhetoric, Ancient.
Classical literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
Poetics--History--To 1500.
Rhétorique ancienne.
Littérature ancienne--Histoire et critique--Théorie, etc.
Poétique.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES--Rhetoric.
REFERENCE--Writing Skills.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES--Composition & Creative Writing.
Poetics.
Rhetoric, Ancient.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
PA3265 / .W35 2000eb
808/.00938