Christiansen Figuring Style 9781611172409

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Автор: Christiansen
Название: Figuring Style
ISBN: 9781611172409
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Теория комуникаций

История раннего нового времени: с 1450/1500 гг. по 1700 г.

ISBN-10: 1611172403
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 696
Вес: 1.34 кг.
Дата издания: 30.07.2013
Серия: Studies in rhetoric/communication
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: Black & white illustrations
Размер: 254 x 178 x 35
Читательская аудитория: Professional and scholarly
Ключевые слова: Communication studies,Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700
Подзаголовок: The legacy of renaissance rhetoric
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Nancy L. Christiansen provides a broad and deep introduction to the discussion of rhetorical stylistic instruction in the English Renaissance. She argues that most contemporary characterisations of Renaissance stylistic theory are reductions obscuring the comprehensive composing and reading method taught by Renaissance rhetoricians. At the core of her discussion is the concept of figures, and Christiansen traces the nomenclature of the figures back to its origins, observing how these terms have mutated, fused, and confused over the centuries. Renaissance figures serve, she argues, to structure all three dimensions of language--speech, thought, and action. As a consequence, in the Renaissance paradigm there are not two types of language, figured and unfigured, but a single language composed of a web of figures. Christiansen makes the largest possible claims for the figures as representing discourse forms at all levels and as providing an ethical centre for cultural practices. She also notes that the figures anticipate some elements of contemporary cognitive linguistics. Her discussion includes a substantial review of rhetorical history to create a lineage from Isocratean/Ciceronian rhetorical theory to the work of Ascham, Puttenham, and others. She also offers a demonstration of these principles in textual analysis by applying them to passages from Shakespeares Titus Andronicus and Sonnet 129, and Miltons Paradise Lost. The resulting explications illustrate not only the primacy of figures to text and their substantive nature, but also the comprehensiveness and insightfulness of such a reading method. Completing her treatment of Renaissance style is a comprehensive handlist of figures, from phonetic and morphological through logical, discoursal, and qualitative categories, along with definitions and examples from both classical and Renaissance sources. The result is a handbook that demystifies Renaissance theory and practice of style in its own historical, philosophical, and pedagogical contexts. Christiansens comprehensive historical analysis, supported by a wealth of textual documentation, offers an erudite revision of an important chapter in the history of style and rhetoric.

Figuring Style, Christiansen