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Rhetoric and Poetics in Antiquity

Rhetoric and Poetics in Antiquity

Walker, Jeffrey

Hardcover

Literary CriticismGeneral ReferenceLinguistics

ISBN10: 0195130359
ISBN13: 9780195130355
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Jul 13 2000
Pages: 416
Weight: 1.70
Height: 1.06 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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