Rhetoric and Drama

ISBN-13: 9783110484595 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 254 str.

Ds Mayfield

Opis

Proving fruitful in various applications throughout its two millennia of predominance, the rhetorical techne appears to have entertained a particularly symbiotic interrelation with drama. With contributions from (among others) a Classicist, historical, linguistic, musicological, operatic, cultural and literary studies perspective, this publication offers interdisciplinary assessments of specific reciprocities between the system of rhetoric and dramatic works: tracing the longue duree of this nexus highlighting its Ancient foundations, its various Early Modern formations, as well as certain configurations enduring to this day enables describing shifting degrees of rhetoricity; approaching it from an interdisciplinary viewpoint facilitates focusing on the often sidelined rhetorical phenomena located beyond the textual plane, specifically memoria and actio; tackling this interchange from various viewpoints and with diverse emphases, a long-lasting and highly prolific cross-fertilization between drama and rhetoric is rendered visible. In tendering a balanced panorama of both detailed case studies and descriptive overviews, this volume also points toward terrain yet to be charted in the scholarship to come. "

O autorze

Daniel Scott Mayfield, Freie Universität Berlin.