... as anthologies or florilegia, gatherings of commonplaces to be rewoven into other poems. Once again a rhetorical trope precedes the theological image in their antanaclasis (a repetition of words with a subtle shift in meaning). Unfortunately, though by now predictably, these three bustling poets...

...” by more hearing people) while also helping convey deaf lives to other deaf lives; thus, these technologies are, in effect, the between space. Thematically, the chapter also attends to the new commonplaces of deaf subjects in late-twentieth- and early-twenty-first-century life narratives. betweenity...

...This chapter discusses the practice of quotation in the eighteenth-century House, against a background of shifting opinions about the usefulness of commonplaces and conflicting views about quotation's value and prestige. With reference to the thinking of contemporary commentators such as James...

... that early modern readers used the random aspect of commonplace books to think creatively, rather than their ordering aspect. They were seen not just as stores of content (collected haphazardly but then rationally indexed for retrieval), but also as miscellanies which had the advantage of bringing material...

...0 01 11 2001 This content is only available as a PDF. detachment expresses rejection commonplaces embrace A skeptical current runs through Pope’s Imitations of Horace (published from 1733 to 1738) that determines their most complicated ideological functions, especially his...

...0 01 10 1998 This content is only available as a PDF. preserve improvise material exemplifying commonplaces By turning in circles the displaced preserve their identity and improvise a shelter. Built of what? Of habits, of the raw material of repetition. Home is no longer a dwelling...

... Institutio Oratoria (The Orator’s Education) shaped so much rhetorical theory and practice in the Renaissance. The chapter explores the practice of commonplacing, noting down particular maxims which could then serve as the basis of explorations of issues, a practice that, like...

... to this study: public culture, relevant notions of modernity and late modernity, rhetorical commonplaces, and witnessing itself. The Introduction thereafter outlines the intended scholarly contributions of the book—including, most especially, an account of witnessing as a rhetorically adaptable medium...

...The Conclusion reiterates the main conceit of the book: that witnessing is rhetorically commonplace in modern public culture in a twofold sense—culturally commonplace and rhetorically commonplace. It also defends the basic methodology and key concepts deployed throughout the analysis, including...

... pages are weird and wonderful things from the depths of this author s imagination, rather than commonplace objects with a lengthy tropic history. The first studies to consider the rhetorical potential of waste paper in depth share a focus on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Ian Donaldson s...

.... advice Breton Nicholas Browne John The marchants avizo 1589 Cecil William Lord Burghley commonplaces Erasmus Adages friendship Portman Richard Proverbs surety Tusser Thomas Fiue hundreth points of good husbandry 1573 Chamberlen Hugh A Description of the Office of Credit 1665 Taverner Richard...

..., historicity, governmentality and fiction, commonplaces, and new questions. authority authorship Benveniste Émile pastiche metonymy Quintilian synecdoche allegory Benjamin and Benjamin Walter allegory in Buchloh Benjamin cento Marx Karl Benjamin and Nietzsche Friedrich authority and authorship...

...This chapter sums up the key findings of this study on the republican political thought of free-thinker John Toland, which has shown that the challenges which he posed to religious commonplaces were not simply philosophical issues, but were fundamentally linked to the power of contemporary civic...

... in this kind of exposition. For this letter is among the best suited for this genre, because it contains many commonplaces (locos communes), and because what Paul says so briefly, they could develop with explanations, arguments, confirmations, examples, and comparisons. ⁵⁴ 72 He...

... as ‘poems of commonplaces’ that organize knowledge around a set of authoritative scriptural headings. This reading of the poems’ biblical aesthetics, in line with recent francophone criticism, provides a basis for understanding how English and Scottish readers from varied backgrounds read and imitated...

... of the commonplaces and common places of Renaissance London in her mock last will and testament. Perhaps appropriately, it is a lower-class writer who is able to realize poetically the democratizing possibilities of custom’s literary properties. Whitney’s engagement with custom brings us to the limits of its...

... narrative scholarship conclude the chapter. Narrative story narrative knowing narrative inquiry critical storytelling self story and culture narrative commonplaces literary nonfiction relationality resonant work During the 1980s, eminent psychologist Jerome Bruner described two distinct...

...In King Lear, characters exist in an uncertain, displaced, relationship to language. The play is built from commonplaces, proverbs, and rhetorical formulae, and from quotations of fable and song, as if many voices, many generations of experience inhabit each phrase. The play...

.... These couplets are also marked as commonplaces, or sententious material intended for later use in other contexts. This chapter argues that these plays use couplets and commonplaces to create a royalist political history of the mid-seventeenth century. Charles I Colchester siege of 1648 commonplaces Cromwell...

... reception, and is a decisive work for seventeenth-century devotional verse. Its publication made the most of the earlier associations with James VI and I and also of the Semaines’ value as poems of commonplaces. The addition of annotations and readers’ notes illustrate the edition’s many...