Rhetorics of Reason and Desire : : Vergil, Augustine, and the Troubadours / / Sarah Spence.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Spence, Sarah,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1988
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (192 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Illustrations --; Preface --; Abbreviations --; Introduction: Desire and the Rhetorical Tradition --; PART ONE. The Rhetoric of Cupidity --; 1. Vergil's Orator --; 2. Juno's Desire --; PART TWO. The Hermeneutics of Charity --; 3. Augustine and the Reincorporation of Desire --; 4. Rhetorical Anxiety in Troubadour Lyric --; Conclusion: Legacy of the Divine Spark --; Notes --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501746291; 9783110536171
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501746291
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Sarah Spence.

Rhetorics of Reason and Desire traces the appearance of rhetoric in key literary works from classical times to the Middle Ages, focusing on the reception and transformation of Ciceronian rhetoric in Vergil's Aeneid, Augustine's Confessions and On Christian Doctrine, and the lyrics of the early troubadours.