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Auteur(s) : Copeland, Rita
Titre(s) : Emotion and the history of rhetoric in the Middle Ages [Texte imprimé] / Rita Copeland
Publication : Oxford : Oxford university press, 2021
Description matérielle : 1 volume (XIV-415 pages) ; 25 cm
Collection : Oxford studies in medieval literature and culture
Lien à la collection : Oxford studies in medieval literature and culture
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. [369]-403. Notes bibliogr. Index
"Rhetoric is an engine of social discourse and the art charged with generating and
swaying emotion. The history of rhetoric provides a continuous structure by which
we can measure how emotions were understood, articulated, and mobilized under various
historical circumstances and social contracts. This book is about how rhetoric in
the West from Late Antiquity to the later Middle Ages represented the role of emotion
in shaping persuasions. It is the first book-length study of medieval rhetoric and
the emotions, coloring in what has largely been a blank space between about 600 CE
and the cusp of early modernity. Rhetoric in the Middle Ages, as in other periods,
constituted the gateway training for anyone engaged in emotionally persuasive writing.
Medieval rhetorical thought on emotion has multiple strands of influence and sedimentations
of practice. The earliest and most persistent tradition treated emotional persuasion
as a property of surface stylistic effect, which can be seen in the medieval rhetorics
of poetry and prose, and in literary production. But the impact of Aristotelian rhetoric,
which reached the Latin West in the thirteenth century, gave emotional persuasion
a core role in reasoning, incorporating it into the key device of proof, the enthymeme.
In Aristotle, medieval teachers and writers found a new rhetorical language to explain
the social and psychological factors that affect an audience. With Aristotelian rhetoric,
the emotions became political. The impact of Aristotle's rhetorical approach to emotions
was to be felt in medieval political treatises, in poetry, and in preaching."
Sujet(s) : Rhétorique médiévale
Littérature médiévale
Émotions -- Dans la littérature -- Moyen âge
Indice(s) Dewey :
808.5 (23e éd.) = Techniques d'écriture du discours
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780192845122 (relié). - ISBN 0192845128 (relié)
EAN 9780192845122
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47052672g
Notice n° :
FRBNF47052672
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