Figuratively Speaking

Rhetoric and Culture from Quintilian to the Twin Towers

By: Sarah Spence

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Paperback | 1 May 2011 | Edition Number 1

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Although rhetoric is a term often associated with lies, this book takes a polemical look at rhetoric as a purveyor of truth. Its purpose is to focus on one aspect of rhetoric, figurative speech, and to demonstrate how the treatment of figures of speech provides a common denominator among western cultures from Cicero to the present. The central idea is that, in the western tradition, figurative speech - using language to do more than name - provides the fundamental way for language to articulate concerns central to each cultural moment. In this study, Sarah Spence identifies the embedded tropes for four periods in Western culture: Roman antiquity, the High Middle Ages, the Age of Montaigne, and our present, post-9/11 moment. In so doing, she reasserts the fundamental importance of rhetoric, the art of speaking well.

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Acknowledgements	p. 7
Introduction	p. 9
Weapons of Mass Creation: Repetition versus Replication	p. 19
Looking Back: Figures of Speech and Thought in the Roman World	p. 39
Dwelling on a Point: Rhetoric and Love in the Middle Ages	p. 67
The Chiastic Page: The Rhetoric of Montaigne's Essais	p. 97
Conclusion	p. 123
Notes	p. 129
Bibliography	p. 135
Index	p. 141
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