An edition of Rhetoric beyond words (2010)

Rhetoric beyond words

delight and persuasion in the arts of the Middle Ages

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Rhetoric beyond words
Mary J. Carruthers
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An edition of Rhetoric beyond words (2010)

Rhetoric beyond words

delight and persuasion in the arts of the Middle Ages

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"In the Middle Ages, liturgies, books, song, architecture and poetry were performed as collaborative activities in which performers and audience together realized their work anew. Essays by leading scholars analyse how the medieval arts invited and delighted in collaborative performances designed to persuade. The essays cast fresh light on subjects ranging from pilgrim processions within Chartres Cathedral, to polyphonic song, and the 'rhetoric of silence' perfected by the Cistercians. Rhetoric is defined broadly in this book to encompass its relationship to its sister arts of music, architecture, and painting, all of which use materials and media in addition to words, sometimes altogether without words. Contributors have concentrated on those aspects of formal rhetoric that are performative in nature, the sound, gesture, and facial expressions of persuasive speech in action. Delivery (performance) is shown to be at the heart of rhetoric, that aspect of it which is indeed beyond words"--Provided by publisher.

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English
Pages
316

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Rhetoric beyond words: delight and persuasion in the arts of the Middle Ages
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Table of Contents

"Working by words alone" : the architect, scholasticism and rhetoric in thirteenth-century France / Paul Binski
Grammar and rhetoric in late medieval polyphony : modern metaphor or old simile? / Margaret Bent
Nature's forge and mechanical production : writing, reading and performing song / Elizabeth Eva Leach
Rhetorical strategies in the pictural imagery of fourteenth-century manuscripts : the case of the Bohun psalters / Lucy Freeman Sandler
Do actions speak louder than words? The scope and role of pronuntiatio in the Latin rhetorical tradition, with special reference to the Cistercians / Jan M. Ziolkowski
Vultus adest (the face helps) : performance, expressivity and interiority / Monika Otter
Special delivery : were medieval letter writers trained in performance? / Martin Camargo
The concept of ductus, or journeying through a work of art / Mary Carruthers
Ductus and memoria : Chartres cathedral and the workings of rhetoric / Paul Crossley
Ductus figuratus et subtilis : rhetorical interventions for women in two twelfth-century liturgies / William T. Flynn
Terribilis est locus iste : the Pantheon in 609 / Susan Rankin.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Cambridge, UK, New York
Series
Cambridge studies in medieval literature, Cambridge studies in medieval literature -- 78.

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Dewey Decimal Class
808/.00902
Library of Congress
PN183 .R449 2010

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 316 p. :
Number of pages
316

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24409480M
ISBN 10
0521515300
ISBN 13
9780521515306
LCCN
2009053757
OCLC/WorldCat
468978579

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