01688nam a2200313 i 4500001000700000003000600007005001700013008004100030020001800071020001500089040002700104082002000131100002800151245005600179264004500235300001400280336002600294337002800320338002700348520077900375650002301154650006601177650003501243650002101278650002501299650001201324650002601336650001201362281135InACL20260928173817.0260928s2000    xxk               0 eng d  a9780195130355  a0195130359  aInACLbengerdacInACL04a880.09bWAL2231 aWalker, Jeffreyeauthor10aRhetoric and poetics in antiquity /cJeffrey Walker 1aOxford :bOxford University Press,c2000  a396 pages  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  a"Modern culture traditionally has viewed rhetoric and poetry as belonging to different worlds: whereas "rhetoric" is practical prose that serves to persuade an audience of the speaker's point of view, "poetry" is aesthetic expression. Jeffrey Walker's study demonstrates that, in fact, in antiquity the two could not be viewed or practiced separately."."In reply to traditional rhetorical histories which tend to view "rhetoric" as in essence an art of practical civic oratory, Rhetoric and Poetics in Antiquity argues in four extended, multi-chapter essays that epideictic and poetic eloquence was central, even fundamental, to the rhetorical tradition in antiquity. This volume also offers a revised rhetorical conception of epideictic and poetic discourse."--BOOK JACKET. 0aRhetoric, Ancient. 0aClassical literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc. 0aPoetics -- History -- To 1500. 0aAncient Rhetoric 0aClassical literature 0aHistory 0aHistory and criticism 0aPoetics