Sacred Rhetoric : : The Christian Grand Style in the English Renaissance / / Debora K. Shuger.
"There are no studies of a sacred grand style in the English Renaissance," writes Debora Shuger, "because even according to its practitioners it was not supposed to exist." Yet the grand style forms the unacknowledged center of traditional rhetorical theory. In this first history...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1988 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (302 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER ONE. THE CHARACTERS OF STYLE FROM ANTIQUITY THROUGH THE MIDDLE AGES
- CHAPTER TWO. THE HISTORY OF SACRED RHETORIC IN THE RENAISSANCE
- CHAPTER THREE. RHETORIC, SOPHISTIC, AND PHILOSOPHY: THE LEGITIMATION OF PASSIONATE DISCOURSE
- CHAPTER FOUR. HELLENISM AND HEBRAISM: THE DEVELOPMENT OF A NON-CICERONIAN GRAND STYLE
- CHAPTER FIVE. GOD, SELF, AND PSYCHE: THE THEOLOGICAL BASES OF THE GRAND STYLE
- CONCLUSION
- APPENDIX. THE SEVEN IDEAS OF HERMOGENES
- GLOSSARY OF RHETORICAL TERMS
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- Backmatter