TY  - BOOK
AU  - Walker,Jeffrey
TI  - Rhetoric and poetics in antiquity
SN  - 9780195130355
U1  - 880.09 23
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Rhetoric, Ancient
KW  - Classical literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
KW  - Poetics -- History -- To 1500
KW  - Ancient Rhetoric
KW  - Classical literature
KW  - History
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Poetics
N2  - "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
ER  -