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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Quintilian"”.
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The strategic use of passion in rhetoric.
… theorists including Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Quintilian, Frances Bacon, George Campbell, I.A. Richards, Kenneth Burke, and Richard Weaver, have treated the controversy between the appeal to logic as opposed to the appeal to the passions.
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Funktion der Grossstadtallegorie und des "Mythos" in der "Zehnten Duineser Elegie" von Rainer Maria Rilke. (German text);
The views of Quintilian, Benjamin and Blumenberg on allegory and metaphor, together with a critical appraisal of Vico's and Frye's theories on myth provide the theoretical framework for the investigations undertaken in this thesis. An analysis of the depiction of city life in Rilke's early works …
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In spite of yourself : the asignifying force of humor and laughter
… While rhetoricians like Aristotle, Cicero and Quintilian attempt to confine laughter’s force to calculated aspects of persuasion, their approaches simultaneously reveal an understanding that laughter’s effects lie beyond the rational control of the orator. By tracing the often-unintended …
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The Subject of Voice: The Object of Rhetoric
… psychoanalytic readings of Plato, Aristotle, Quintilian, contemporary compositionists, and religious rituals.</p>
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Statius' Silvan Poetics: A Synoptic Reading of the Silvae
… treatises of Cicero and, most notably, Quintilian, who appears to have been an important model for Statius’ poetic undertaking. It also traces the use of this title in the wake of Statius. Chapter 2 questions the validity of the label ‘occasional poetry’ and investigates how the silvan …
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Recovering a Classically Oral Homiletic
… theological and homiletic implications. </p><p> Quintilian's infinitely flexible oratory represents the richness of the communicative environment during the infancy of the church. His emphasis on depth of understanding as a prerequisite for public speaking grounds the speaker in resources beyond …
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Reading for the Republic: The Minor Declamations and the Culture of the Past
The Latin exercise of controversia, which tasked its participant with arguing as either the prosecution or defence in a mock legal dispute, is thought to have emerged during the later years of the Roman Republic when it was performed by politicians no lesser than Pompeius Magnus, Cicero, Marcus …
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Studies in the Ancient Reception of Seneca the Younger
… Latin prose texts of this period – chiefly Quintilian’s *Institutio oratoria* (Ch.1), Pliny’s *Epistles* (Ch.2), and Tacitus’ (Neronian) *Annals* (Ch.3), but also Pliny’s *Panegyricus* (Ch.3.4a), Suetonius’ *Nero* (Ch.3.4b), and Fronto’s letters (Ch.2.*fin*.). All of these authors exhibit a …