Rhetoric and Drama
DS Mayfield, "Rhetoric and Drama"
English | ISBN: 3110484595 | 2017 | 254 pages | EPUB, PDF | 7 MB + 2 MB
English | ISBN: 3110484595 | 2017 | 254 pages | EPUB, PDF | 7 MB + 2 MB
Proving fruitful in various applications throughout its two millennia of predominance, the rhetorical téchne appears to have entertained a particularly symbiotic interrelation with drama. With contributions from (among others) a Classicist, historical, linguistic, musicological, operatic, cultural and literary studies perspective, this publication offers interdisciplinary assessments of specific reciprocities between the system of rhetoric and dramatic works: tracing the longue durée of this nexus―highlighting its Ancient foundations, its various Early Modern formations, as well as certain configurations enduring to this day―enables describing shifting degrees of rhetoricity; approaching it from an interdisciplinary viewpoint facilitates focusing on the often sidelined rhetorical phenomena located beyond the textual plane, specifically
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