Cicero's Accretive Style - Rhetorical Strategies in the Exordia of the Judicial Speeches (Hardcover)

Cicero's Accretive Style is a book about the nature of the Ciceronian exordium and its rhetorical structure and function. Through a sentence-by-sentence stylistic analysis of the exordia of a selection of Cicero's judicial speeches, this book explores how Cicero uses a variety of rhetorical strategies to fulfill the aims of the exordium as he himself defined them. The speeches selected for study include the Pro Quinctio, Pro Roscio Amerino, and Pro Rege Deiotaro, and cover the span of Cicero's career. The focus of the analysis is on Cicero's "accretive" style not a rhetorical device in the formal sense, but a conscious, stylistic effort whose effect is rhetorical. Because Cicero also wrote important treatises on oratory and rhetoric, this book measures how closely Cicero followed his own guidelines laid down for the exordium, and how and under what circumstances he deviated or departed from them."

General

Imprint:	University Press of America
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	1997
Authors:	Steven M. Cerutti
Dimensions:	227 x 149 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	202
ISBN-13:	978-0-7618-0438-3
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Ancient Western philosophy to c 500 > General Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Ancient Western philosophy to c 500 > General
LSN:	0-7618-0438-2
Barcode:	9780761804383

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