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"Inasmuch as drama seeks to keep an audience engaged, it takes on rhetorical qualities; likewise, rhetorical endeavour may employ dramatic appeal. Centuries ago, Aristotle's companion pieces """"The Rhetoric"""" and """"The Poetic"""" generated crosscurrents of critical thought about rhetoric and dramatic theory. Recently, such critic-theorists as Kenneth Burke, Ernest Bormann, Elder Olson, Paul de Man and others have stirred up these currents afresh. The contributors to this volume take new approaches to enduring issues."

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Author:   Stanley Vincent Longman
Publisher:   The University of Alabama Press
Imprint:   The University of Alabama Press
Volume:   v. 5
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.240kg
ISBN:  

9780817308872

ISBN 10:   0817308873
Pages:   144
Publication Date:   28 February 1998
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
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Table of Contents

"Part 1 Rhetorical Dimensions to the Drama - the Classical Context: Enthymeme and the Invention of Troping in Greek Drama, August W. Staub; Theorizing the Spectacle - a Rhetorical Analysis of Tragic Recognition, Tom Heeney; Exile and the Kingdom - Reason as Nightmare in the Aeschylean Vision, John Arthos. Part 2 The Rhetorical in Renaissance and Neoclassical Drama: Epideictic Pastoral - Rhetorical Tensions in the Staging of Torquato Tasso's """"Aminta"""", Maria Galli Stampino; Shakespeare's Rhetoric Versus the Ideology of Ian McKellen's """"Richard III"""", George L. Geckle; And Now for Application - """"Venice Preserv'd"""" and the Rhetoric of Textual Application, Odai Johnson. Part 3 War, Politics and the Drama: Federalist and Republican Theatre in the 1790s, Steve Wilmer; """"Uncle Tom's Cabin"""" and the Rhetoric of Gradualism, Charles Wilbanks; Dario Fo's Angry Farce, Stanley Vincent Longman. Part 4 Contemporary Culture: Stain Upon the Silence - Samuel Beckett's Deconstructive Inventions, Leigh Anne Howard; Still Angry After All These Years - Performing the Language of HIV and the Marked Body in """"The Normal Heart"""" and """"The Destiny of Me"""", Peter Michael Pober."

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