Rhetoric and Poetics in Antiquity

ISBN-13: 9780195130355 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 416 str.

Jeffrey Walker

Opis

This book offers a counter-traditional account of the history of both rhetoric and poetics. In reply to traditional rhetorical histories, which view "rhetoric" primarily 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, Jeffrey 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.

Recenzje

Passionately-argued ... The elevated perspective of Walker's inclusive approach reveals an ancient literary landscape formed as much by Isocrates and Alcaeus as by Aristotle and Demosthenes, and from it many literary and scholarly paths not taken may be glimpsed through the clouds.