Ekphrasis, Imagination and Persuasion in Ancient Rhetorical, Webb Ruth

Название: Oxford handbook of rhetorical studies
ISBN: 0199731594 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199731596
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: Featuring roughly sixty specially commissioned essays by an international cast of leading rhetoric experts from North America, Europe, and Great Britain, the Handbook will offer readers a comprehensive topical and historical survey of the theory and practice of rhetoric from ancient Greece and Rome through the Middle Ages and Enlightenment up to the present day.

Автор: Choricius
Название: Rhetorical Exercises from Late Antiquity: A Translation of Choricius of Gaza`s Preliminary Talks and Declamations
ISBN: 1108729924 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108729925
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: The first translation, produced by a team of eight scholars, of the Declamations and Preliminary Talks of the sixth-century sophist Choricius of Gaza. This volume also contains a detailed study of Choricius` reception in Byzantium and Renaissance Italy.

Автор: Anton Weiss-Wendt
Название: A Rhetorical Crime: Genocide in the Geopolitical Discourse of the Cold War
ISBN: 0813594669 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813594668
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: The Genocide Convention was drafted by the United Nations in the late 1940s, as a response to the horrors of the Second World War. But was the Genocide Convention truly effective at achieving its humanitarian aims, or did it merely exacerbate the divisive rhetoric of Cold War geopolitics? A Rhetorical Crime shows how genocide morphed from a legal concept into a political discourse used in propaganda battles between the United States and the Soviet Union. Over the course of the Cold War era, nearly eighty countries were accused of genocide, and yet there were few real-time interventions to stop the atrocities committed by genocidal regimes like the Cambodian Khmer Rouge.  Renowned genocide scholar Anton Weiss-Wendt employs a unique comparative approach, analyzing the statements of Soviet and American politicians, historians, and legal scholars in order to deduce why their moral posturing far exceeded their humanitarian action.    

Автор: Eisendrath Rachel
Название: Poetry in a World of Things: Aesthetics and Empiricism in Renaissance Ekphrasis
ISBN: 022651661X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226516615
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Описание: We have become used to looking at art from a stance of detachment. In order to be objective, we create a "mental space" between ourselves and the objects of our investigation, separating internal and external worlds. This detachment dates back to the early modern period, when researchers in a wide variety of fields tried to describe material objects as "things in themselves"--things, that is, without the admixture of imagination. Generations of scholars have heralded this shift as the Renaissance "discovery" of the observable world.

In Poetry in a World of Things, Rachel Eisendrath explores how poetry responded to this new detachment by becoming a repository for a more complex experience of the world. The book focuses on ekphrasis, the elaborate literary description of a thing, as a mode of resistance to this new empirical objectivity. Poets like Petrarch, Spenser, Marlowe, and Shakespeare crafted highly artful descriptions that recovered the threatened subjective experience of the material world. In so doing, these poets reflected on the emergence of objectivity itself as a process that was often darker and more painful than otherwise acknowledged. This highly original book reclaims subjectivity as a decidedly poetic and human way of experiencing the material world and, at the same time, makes a case for understanding art objects as fundamentally unlike any other kind of objects.