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OverviewThis is the first comprehensive History of Renaissance Rhetoric. Rhetoric, a training in writing and delivering speeches, was a fundamental part of renaissance culture and education. It is concerned with a wide range of issues, connected with style, argument, self-presentation, the arousal of emotion, voice and gesture. More than 3,500 works on rhetoric were published in a total of over 15,000 editions between 1460 and 1700. The renaissance was a great age of innovation in rhetorical theory. This book shows how renaissance scholars recovered and circulated classical rhetoric texts, how they absorbed new doctrines from Greek rhetoric, and how they adapted classical rhetorical teaching to fit modern conditions. It traces the development of specialised manuals in letter-writing, sermon composition and style, alongside accounts of the major Latin treatises in the field by Lorenzo Valla, George Trapezuntius, Rudolph Agricola, Erasmus, Philip Melanchthon, Johann Sturm, Juan Luis Vives, Peter Ramus, Cyprien Soarez, Justus Lipsius, Gerard Vossius and many others. Contents List Full Product DetailsAuthor: Peter Mack (Director of the Warburg Institute, University of London; Professor of English, University of Warwick)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 13.90cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.440kg ISBN: 9780199679997ISBN 10: 0199679991 Pages: 360 Publication Date: 25 April 2013 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents1: Introduction and Origins 2: Diffusion and Reception of Classical Rhetoric 3: Italy 1390-1480 4: Agricola 5: Erasmus 6: Northern Europe 1519-1545: The Age of Melanchthon 7: Northern Europe 1545-1580: Ramus and company 8: Southern Europe in the Sixteenth Century 9: New Syntheses 1600-1620: Keckermann, Vossius and Caussin 10: Manuals of Tropes and Figures 11: Letter-writing manuals 12: Preaching manuals and Legal dialectics 13: Vernacular Rhetorics 14: . Conclusion: Renaissance Rhetoric Bibliography of Secondary Works Glossary of Rhetorical and Dialectical TermsReviews<br> Mack's encyclopedic erudition makes him an authoritative guide...This is an invaluable reference for specialists...Essential. --CHOICE<p><br> In A History of Renaissance Rhetoric 13801620 Mack makes those important Latin Renaissance rhetoric manuals visible, in the process bringing to our attention some important works in the history of rhetoric ... Peter Mack has done more than anyone to make this important literature available and accessible for our age. Arthur E. Walzer, Rhetoric Society Quarterly an ambitious compendium of rhetorical history that brings a broad corpus together ... Mack's book encapsulates many of the essential rhetorical works of the Renaissance, providing insightful and articulate overviews of its primary sources along with convienient groupings to help the novice scholar make sense of these immense and diverse sources. Amanda J. Gerber, Comitatus Author InformationPeter Mack studied at Oxford, the Warburg Institute, University of London, and Rome. He has been editor of the leading international journal Rhetorica and Chair of the English Department and the Arts Faculty at the University of Warwick. From October 2010 he will become Director of the Warburg Institute and Professor of the History of the Classical Tradition. His books include, Renaissance Argument (1993), Elizabethan Rhetoric (2002) and Reading and Rhetoric in Montaigne and Shakespeare (2010). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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