An edition of Figuring style
(2013)
Figuring style
the legacy of Renaissance rhetoric
by Nancy Christiansen
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Figuring style: the legacy of Renaissance rhetoric
2013, The University of South Carolina Press
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1611172403 9781611172409
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Table of Contents
Introduction: the philosophy of style in the renaissance rhetorical curriculum
Competing views of style
Additional contexts: philosophical, historical, methodological
The comprehensiveness of figures
Style as form, form as figure
Implications
A new definition of figure
Style as invention/invention as style
Discourse, a web of schemes
Rhetoric, the umbrella of the communication arts
The question of the plain style
The figurative nature of mind
The figurative nature of human behavior
Functions of figures and styles: tools and mirrors
Figure/style/text as performance
Figure/style/text as argument: both tool of persuasion and mirror of mind
Figures and styles as assertions
Figures and styles as emotional expressions
Figures and styles as characters
Ethics, the center of style
Conclusion: the figure as utterance
Stylistic analysis
Satan in paradise lost
Shakespeare's sonnet 129
Titus in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus
Appendix 1: a handlist of the figures
Appendix 2: a chronology of sources
Appendix 3: an alphabetical listing of the figures
Appendix 4: the figures and the elements of the curriculum.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 611-634) and index.
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