Rhetoric and rhythm in Byzantium : the sound of persuasion / / Vessela Valiavitcharska.
"Rhetoric and Rhythm in Byzantium takes a fresh look at rhetorical rhythm and its theory and practice, highlighting the close affinity between rhythm and argument. Based on material from Byzantine and Old Church Slavonic homilies and from Byzantine rhetorical commentaries, the book redefines an...
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| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 243 p. |
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Introduction: why rhythm? 1. Meter and rhythm in Byzantine eyes: Hellenistic traditions and Byzantine theory; 2. Between prose and poetry: 'Asianic' rhythms, accentual poetry, and the Byzantine festal homily; 3. Dirhythmia in the Byzantine classroom; 4. Argument, figure, and rhythm; 5. Rhythm in translation: some evidence from Old Church Slavonic homilies; Conclusion: why recover rhythm?; Appendix A. Text comparison: corpus and methodology; Appendix B. Tables and flow charts.