... Humboldt MacGillivray Fyfe Aileen Lyell Charles science Brock Claire direct speech visibility in translation scientific writing Alexander von Humboldt Helen Maria Williams Scientific Style Sentimental Rhetoric Translation and Revision Longman 19th-century Scientific Publishing In 1814...

... targeted rhetoric provided by guest stars to create a complex appeal to audience attitudes. Ally McBeal Smith Greg Cosby Show The ER Everybody Loves Raymond Friends LA Law Practice The Cruz Wilson Edelstein Lisa LeGros James Humphries Barry Dame Edna Everage Hall Albert Guess Who's Coming...

... Conciliarists epideictic rhetoric literacy Premierfait Laurent de ars dictaminis Charles VIII of France Ciceronianism letters Salutati Coluccio consensio Erasmus Desiderius printing scholastics Lipsius Justus Constantia Rinuccini Alamanno simplicity Stoicism Huguenots Netherlands...

... of diction Aristotle Demetrius of Phalerum Vives Juan Luis deliberation epistolary rhetoric Turpilius wit Castiglione Baldassare The Courtier courts and courtliness dissimulation flatterers and flattery friendship princes simplicity sprezzatura adaptability plain style Machiavelli Niccolò...

...The Concept of Conversation traces the rise of conversation from a minor mode of rhetoric to the point where rhetoric as a whole was redefined as conversation, and argues that this was the most important change in rhetoric during the centuries between 1400 and 1700...

...This 1980 text describes a seminar that Paul de Man taught in 1981 at Yale University. The seminar deals with a central problem in contemporary literary theory from a pedagogical, rather than from a purely theoretical, perspective. It investigates how an awareness of the rhetorical properties...

..., Fragmentation of the Self, The Crisis of Representation, and Rhetoric and Interpretation. The chapters cover topics ranging from de Man's ‘Literary History and Modernity’ to George Lukacs's ‘The Subject/Object Relationship in Aesthetics’, Hillis Miller's ‘The Three Problematics of Fiction’, Wayne Booth's...

... literature theology kalām al Ḥasan al Baṣrī Jamharat rasāʾil al ʿArab elite al khā‚‚a invocation in prefaces Pliny R fī mawt Abī Óarb b al Íaffār al Baṣrī reader Altman J author implied Booth W criticism rhetorical naratee narratology dialogical view of literature double voicing...

.... Precedents for this rhetorical gatekeeping can be found in the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, which informed later critiques. All three categories of ritual healing explored in this book – miraculous objects, miraculous places, and miraculous people – drew the criticism of elite authors. In some cases...

...The interplay between cities, theatricality and conversion becomes manifest in exclusive or semi-private spaces, such as classrooms and private studies. As this chapter illustrates, the rhetorical textbooks of Fernández Salazar sought to train students in the art of Rhetoric by performing didactic...

... of the stage rhetoric différance Engel Pascal Kant Immanuel Kierkegaard Søren Norris Christopher Dooley Mark Hegel Georg Wilhelm Friedrich consensus Nietzsche Friedrich Plato event Lyotard François Foucault Michel Bohman James Connolly William E democracy agonistic poverty political public...

...This chapter analyzes the symbols and rhetoric deployed by Shaykh Uvays and those in his service in order to construct an ideology of dynastic sovereignty for the Jalayirid sultan. Epigraphic, numismatic, artistic and literary sources, including the poetry of Salmān Sāvajī, are examined, and reveal...

...The question of the relation of gender to rhetoric could not well have been considered before the Roman gender system itself came to be examined, and indeed seems not to have arisen. Recent years have seen a surge of relevant research, most of which shows the influence of the Berkeley New...

...This chapter discusses how the rhetoric of secrecy enters the domestic sphere during and after wartime, and how it intersects with privacy, studying common wartime experiences, including evacuation and conscription, which had various effects on the family group. It includes several war stories...

...This chapter focuses on how rhetoric shapes emotional affect, and considers how the texts are transformed through their evolution in print. It examines A Mirror for Magistrates and describes it as protean and collaborative, through its ability to change and expand its many editions...

... justified by necessity to criminal wrongdoing. But one feature of political rhetoric is that distinctions between degrees of wrongdoing are often undermined by claims of ‘moral equivalence’ that aim to blunt, revise and unsettle them. This chapter describes what is going on when public speech about...

... Thatcher and the New Right, which describes the social and political conditions of the period. The chapter then views Thatcherism's deployment of rhetoric of tradition, firm governance, national identity and security, and tradition, and also considers the contradictions of Thatcherism, cultural turns...

...Chapter examines the relations between the time of writing and art historical time by linking Bergsonian duration with rhetorical devices from the postmodern historical novel, in particular Carlos Fuentes’ Terra Nostra. Fuentes’ work provides modes of writing for art historians...

...This chapter reads the asymmetrical chiasmus between the ‘rhetorization of grammar’ and the ‘grammatization of rhetoric’ that structures the argument of de Man's ‘Semiology and Rhetoric’. It demonstrates that a certain materialism can be drawn out of a text putatively only about linguistic...

...This chapter begins with an analysis of how de Man understands ‘the resistance to theory’ as the resistance to language, to language about language, and, ultimately, to rhetoric. It offers a way to study and to teach literary theory on the model of the trivium and rhetoric's...