Although rhetoric is a term often associated with lies, this book
takes a polemical look at rhetoric as a purveyor of truth. Its
purpose is to focus on one aspect of rhetoric, figurative speech,
and to demonstrate how the treatment of figures of speech provides
a common denominator among western cultures from Cicero to the
present. The central idea is that, in the western tradition,
figurative speech - using language to do more than name - provides
the fundamental way for language to articulate concerns central to
each cultural moment. In this study, Sarah Spence identifies the
embedded tropes for four periods in Western culture: Roman
antiquity, the High Middle Ages, the Age of Montaigne, and our
present, post-9/11 moment. In so doing, she reasserts the
fundamental importance of rhetoric, the art of speaking well.
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