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Rhetorical Renaissance - The Mistress Art and Her Masterworks (Hardcover)
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Rhetorical Renaissance - The Mistress Art and Her Masterworks (Hardcover)
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Kathy Eden reveals the unexplored classical rhetorical theory at
the heart of iconic Renaissance literary works. Kathy Eden explores
the intersection of early modern literary theory and practice. She
considers the rebirth of the rhetorical art-resulting from the
rediscovery of complete manuscripts of high-profile ancient texts
about rhetoric by Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Quintilian, and
Tacitus, all unavailable before the early fifteenth century-and the
impact of this art on early modern European literary production.
This profound influence of key principles and practices on the most
widely taught early modern literary texts remains largely and
surprisingly unexplored. Devoting four chapters to these
practices-on status, refutation, similitude, and style-Eden
connects the architecture of the most widely read classical
rhetorical manuals to the structures of such major Renaissance
works as Petrarch's Secret, Castiglione's Book of the Courtier,
Erasmus's Antibarbarians and Ciceronianus, and Montaigne's Essays.
Eden concludes by showing how these rhetorical practices were
understood to work together to form a literary masterwork, with
important implications for how we read these texts today.
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