Rhetoric and Poetics in Antiquity. - WALKER, J.,
KORTE INHOUD
'I believe Walker's book will interest teachers of classics, even if they shy away from 'rhetoric' per se. They might find themselves forced to rethink what they mean by that term. To my mind, the historical narrative of the changing meaning of rhetoric is the most impressive and useful part of this book (others may find more for themselves in the readings of archaic lyric). I can, for instance, immediately see that Walker's thesis will affect the way I discuss ancient educational practice and such phenomena as declamation in my own courses on Greek and Roman literature. Where specifically Walker struck me as most compelling was in his contention that there is an important relationship between rhetoric and democracy or justice, but that it is not the received one. The standard histories of rhetoric would have it that rhetoric is a democratic phenomenon, or that it at least requires a political system open to contestation in the courts and assemblies. Thus under Hellenistic monarchies or the Roman empire rheto...
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2000. 416p. Hardback. Small, light stain to fore edge. Nice copy. [New] [Auteur: WALKER, J.,] [Uitgever: Oxford University Press] [Jaar: 2000] [Titel: Rhetoric and Poetics in Antiquity.]
