Rhetorica Movet
Studies in Historical and Modern Rhetoric in Honour of Heinrich F. Plett
Biographical note
Peter L. Oesterreich, Dissertation (1984) in Philosophy, University of Essen, is Professor of Philosophy at the Augustana Hochschule in Neuendettelsau, Bavaria. His publications focus on the relationship between rhetoric and philosophy, e.g. Das gelehrte Absolute (Darmstadt, 1997).
Thomas O. Sloane, Ph.D. (1960) in Speech, Northwestern University, is Professor of Rhetoric Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He has published extensively on the rhetoric and literature of the English Renaissance, including Donne, Milton, and the End of Humanist Rhetoric (1985) and On the Contrary (1998).
Thomas O. Sloane, Ph.D. (1960) in Speech, Northwestern University, is Professor of Rhetoric Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He has published extensively on the rhetoric and literature of the English Renaissance, including Donne, Milton, and the End of Humanist Rhetoric (1985) and On the Contrary (1998).
Readership
University and College Libraries; Rhetoric and Communication Departments; scholars interested in rhetoric and its relation with theology, philosophy, law, education, literature and politics.
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This re-examination of alchemical engravings of the late Renaissance uses an innovative semiotic method in analysing their geometrical and optical rhetorical devices. The images are contextualised within contemporary metaphysics, specifically, the discourse of light, and in Protestant reformism.
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This publication is the first of its kind. It approaches Anglo-Dutch relations from the angle of the production of the highly popular emblem book and its influence on important cultural and political events, mainly in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
€150.00$194.00
The present volume contains eighteen papers of a conference devoted to iconography and emblem studies. The essays represent the state of research and are arranged according to the following aspects: Iconography and Ideology, Iconography and History, The World of Emblems and Occult Emblematics.
€266.00$345.00
This comprehensive bibliography lists some 500 source texts published in the British Isles or abroad from 1479 to 1660 and more than 2,000 works of secondary literature from 1900 to the present.
€176.00$228.00
This volume is the first monograph on Renaissance music devoted to discuss compositions which involve symbolism inspired by ideas and themes inherent in the musical culture of the time, and to present means for controlling the process of their interpretation.
€197.00$255.00
This collection of nineteen essays focuses on the ways in which, in England, France and Spain, the Renaissance made propagandistic, or aesthetic, use of the image in various spectacles. Under surface differences between genres, what emerges is a surprising similarity in tactics and response, ...
€144.00$187.00
A selection of papers read at the first international conference devoted exclusively to emblematics. The papers have been selected with an eye to representing various national traditions in emblematics and various, currently active, approaches to the emblem.
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