Handbook of Literary Rhetoric

Handbook of Literary Rhetoric
Author: Heinrich Lausberg
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 968
Release: 1997-12-31
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9789004107052

Lausberg's "Handbook of Literary Rhetoric" is an internationally acclaimed, standard reference work on rhetorical techniques in classical literature, ancient and modern. This translation makes it available for the first time to the English-speaking world.

Writers of the Spanish Colonial Period

Writers of the Spanish Colonial Period
Author: David William Foster
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 456
Release: 1997
Genre: Spanish American literature
ISBN: 9780815326786

"These critical studies propose innovative readings and overall reformulations of the texts and authors that stand as representative of the period for the contemporary reader. The first group of articles refers to reports, chronicles, and Renaissance epics, a vast block of texts that fall in most cases halfway between history and narrative fiction, and examine the experiences of the discovery, the conquest, and the colonization of the new territories. The second group concentrates on regionally marked texts from the Baroque period, especially those of the central figure of the Mexican nun poet and intellectual, Sor Juana In s de la Cruz. Finally, there are some essays on representative texts of the latter part of the colonial period."--Publisher's description.

José Emilio Pacheco and the Poets of the Shadows

José Emilio Pacheco and the Poets of the Shadows
Author: Ronald J. Friis
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2001
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780838754924

"Jose Emilio Pacheco (1939- ) is Mexico's foremost living poet, and a major figure in contemporary Latin American poetry. Jose Emilio Pacheco and the Poets of the Shadows examines the dynamic of literary influence and the question of literary origins in Pacheco's first six books of poetry (1960s to mid-1980s). Ronald J. Friis appropriates Bloom's theory of poetic influence to investigate how Pacheco deploys literary allusions and intertextual references as a means of decentering the traditional centrality of the figure of the author. The poets of the shadows to which the title refers include Pacheco's precursors from prior generations of Mexican and Latin American literature, particularly Jorge Luis Borges, Alfonso Reyes, and Octavio Paz."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Rhetorical Conquests

Rhetorical Conquests
Author: Glen Carman
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2006
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1557534039

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The Bloomsbury Companion to Stylistics

The Bloomsbury Companion to Stylistics
Author: Violeta Sotirova
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 745
Release: 2015-11-19
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1441143203

This Bloomsbury Companion provides an overview of stylistics with a detailed outline of the scope and history of the discipline, as well as its key areas of research. The main research methods and approaches within the field are presented with a detailed overview and then illustrated with a chapter of unique new research by a leading scholar in the field. The Companion also features in-depth explorations of current research areas in stylistics in the form of new studies by established researchers in the field. The broad interdisciplinary scope of stylistics is reflected in the wide array of approaches taken to the linguistic study of texts drawing on traditions from linguistics, literary theory, literary criticism, critical theory and narratology, and in the diverse group of internationally recognised contributors.

How to legislate with wisdom and eloquence

How to legislate with wisdom and eloquence
Author: Luís Marchili
Publisher: Luis Marchili
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2016-04-16
Genre: Education
ISBN:

The art of legislation, that had got lost, is reborn in this book from the classic tradition, which conceives the laws like wise and eloquent civic speeches, and the rhetoric as its basic method, of a such way, that the return to the ancient will be a true progress.

Writing of the Formless

Writing of the Formless
Author: Jaime Rodríguez Matos
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2016-12-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0823274098

In this book, Jaime Rodríguez Matos proposes the “formless” as a point of departure in thinking through the relationship between politics and time. Thinking through both literary and political writings around the Cuban Revolution, Rodríguez Matos explores the link between abstract symbolic procedures and various political experiments that have sought to give form to a principle of sovereignty based on the category of representation. In doing so, he proposes the formless as the limit of modern and contemporary reflections on the meaning of politics while exploring the philosophical consequences of a formless concept of temporality for the critique of metaphysics. Rodríguez Matos takes the writing and thought of José Lezama Lima as the guiding thread in exploring the possibility of a politicity in which time is imagined beyond the disciplining functions it has had throughout the metaphysical tradition—a time of the absence of time, in which the absence of time no longer means eternity.

Epigrammaton Liber VII

Epigrammaton Liber VII
Author: Guillermo Galán Vioque
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 624
Release: 2002
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9789004123380

This is the first comprehensive commentary -line by line and word by word- on the seventh book of the epigrams of Martial. Literary, linguistic and metrical matters are examined in depth, and special attention is paid to the relationship with the poet's other books and with the rest of Greek and Latin Literature, as well as to the use of recurrent motifs, obscene language, puns, double meanings and proper names.

Signs of Science

Signs of Science
Author: Dale J. Pratt
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2001
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781557532213

Signs of Science: Literature, Science, and Spanish Modernity since 1868 traces how Spanish culture represented scientific activity from the mid-nineteenth century onward. The book combines the global perspective afforded by historical narrative with detailed rhetorical analyses of images of science in specific literary and scientific texts. As literary criticism it seeks to illuminate similarities and differences in how science and scientists are pictured; as cultural history it follows the course of a centuries-long dialogue about Spain and science.