01719nam a2200325 i 4500 281135 InACL 20260928173817.0 260928s2000 xxk 0 eng d 9780195130355 0195130359 InACL eng rda InACL 880.09 WAL 23 Walker, Jeffrey author Rhetoric and poetics in antiquity / Jeffrey Walker Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000 396 pages text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier "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. Rhetoric, Ancient. Classical literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc. Poetics -- History -- To 1500. Ancient Rhetoric Classical literature History History and criticism Poetics 633405 633405 0 0 0 0 ACL ACL GEN 2026-09-28 0 880.09 WAL 281135 2026-09-28 17:38:17 2026-09-28 BK