Rhetoric and Rhythm in Byzantium: The Sound of Persuasion - Couverture rigide

Valiavitcharska, Vessela

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1107037360 ISBN 13 : 9781107037366

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2013

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Rhetoric and Rhythm in Byzantium takes a fresh look at rhetorical rhythm and its theory and practice, highlighting the close affinity between rhythm and argument. Based on material from Byzantine and Old Church Slavonic homilies and from Byzantine rhetorical commentaries, the book redefines and expands our understanding of both Byzantine and Old Church Slavonic prose rhythm. It positions rhetorical rhythm at the intersection of prose and poetry and explores its role in argumentation and persuasion, suggesting that rhetorical rhythm can carry across linguistic boundaries, and in general aims to demonstrate the stylistic and argumentative importance of rhythm in rhetorical practice. Along the way, it challenges the entrenched separation between content and style and emphasizes the role of rhythm as a tool of invention and a means of creating shared emotional experience.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Vessela Valiavitcharska is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her interests lie in classical and Byzantine rhetoric and pedagogy, medieval scholia and rhetorical commentaries, rhetoric and poetics, and textual criticism.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1107037360
• ISBN 13: 9781107037366
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 248