This volume is the first comprehensive reference work on English Renaissance rhetoric and poetics. It is arranged in four sections: (A) bibliographies, (B) primary sources, (C) secondary sources, (D) indices. Section B lists more than 500 books on rhetoric and poetics published in the British Isles and abroad between 1479 and 1660. Detailed information is provided on each of them: transcription of the title-page of the editio princeps, call number of the library copy consulted, further historical and modern editions, together with the relevant secondary literature. Section C covers the...

Dedicated to the subject of literary rhetoric, this book is divided in three principal parts: I. An historical outline of the relationship of rhetoric and literature. II. An overview of the realm of rhetoric and its parts and functions, above all in the section of "elocutio" with its classes of figures, where a critical comparison of traditional and modern models of the rhetorical figures is followed by the design of a new one. III. The implementation of this new concept in seven classes of figures and their respective subdivisions: 1. phonological, 2. morphological, 3. syntactic, 4....

The present study provides an extensive treatment of the topic of enargeia on the basis of the classical and humanist sources of its theoretical foundation. These serve as the basis for detailed analyses of verbal and pictorial works of the Classical Antiquity and the Early Modern Age. Their theoretical basis is the tradition of classical rhetoric with its principal representatives (Aristotle, Cicero, Quintilian) and their reception history. The 'enargetic' approach to the arts may be described as rhetoric of presence and display, or aesthetics of evidence and imagination. Visual...

2 Zur Situation der Forschung 14 Zur Struktur der Bibliographie 23 ABKORZUNGSVERZEICHNIS 23 Zeitschriften Sonstige Werke 29 30 Bibliotheken A. BIBLIOGRAPHISCHE HILFSMITTEL 31 Zu den QueZZentexten 31 1. 1. 1. Allgemein 31 34 1 . 2. Speziell 36 2. Zur SekundarZiteratur Spezialliteratur 36 2. 1. 2. 2. Ze i tschr if ten 38 Dissertationsverzeichnisse 39 2. 3. 41 B. QUELLEN 1. Rhetoriken 41 41 1. 1. Klassische und humanistische Rhetoriken 52 1. 2. Predigttheorien 1. 3. Epistolartheorien, Briefsteller 72 1. 4. Progymnasmata 82 1. 5. Commonplace Books, Formularien, Deklamationen 84 1. 6. Stil...