Walker, Jeffrey creator author text xxk 2000 monographic eng

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396 pages "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. Jeffrey Walker Rhetoric, Ancient Classical literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc Poetics -- History -- To 1500 Ancient Rhetoric Classical literature History History and criticism Poetics 880.09 WAL 9780195130355 0195130359 InACL 260928 20260928173817.0 281135 eng