Since Jacob Burckhardt’s Kultur der Renaissance in Italien (1869) rhetoric as a significant cultural factor of the renaissance has largely been neglected. The present study seeks to remedy this deficit regarding the arts by concentrating on literary theory and its aspects of imagination (inventio), genre (dispositio of the genera), style (elocutio), mnemonic architecture (memoria) and representation (actio), with illustrative examples taken from Shakespeare’s works, but also on the intermedial rhetoric of painting and music. Particular attention is given to the rhetorical ideology of the Renaissance.
About the author
Heinrich F. Plett ist Ordinarius für Anglistik an der Universität Essen und Direktor des Zentrums für Rhetorik- und Renaissance-Studien an der Universität Essen.
Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 596 ● ISBN 9783110201895 ● File size 113.9 MB ● Publisher De Gruyter ● City Berlin/Boston ● Published 2008 ● Edition 1 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 2153921 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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