Rhetorica Movet: Studies in Historical and Modern Rhetoric in Honour of Heinrich F. Plett

Front Cover
Heinrich Franz Plett, Peter Lothar Oesterreich, Thomas O. Sloane
BRILL, 1999 - Literary Criticism - 545 pages
This collection of articles in English and German covers a wide interdisciplinary spectrum of topics in literature, linguistics, philosophy, law, theology, education, politics and intellectual history. They deal with historical and modern aspects of rhetoric and reflect the state of rhetorical scholarship in North America and diverse countries of Europe. The topics include, among others, the treatment of 'enargeia' in Quintilians's "Institutio Oratoria," the role of Petrus Ramus in the Ciceronian controversy, the social activities of the Rederijkers in the Dutch Republic of the late 16th and early 17th century, the role of 'elocutio' in Renaissance grammar books, Martin Luther's attitude towards rhetoric, the functions of forum and theatre in the history of eloquence, a critical review of models of the word-play, rhetorical interpretations of works by W. Shakespeare, J. Milton, L. Sterne, B. Brecht and G. Benn.

From inside the book

Contents

Luthers Reformation der Rhetorik
25
Must a Good Orator Be a Good Man? Ramus in the Ciceronian
43
Rhetoric and Civic Harmony in the Dutch Republic of the Late
57
Renaissance Grammar Books and Elocutio
73
Mentalität
117
Kein ChaucerSonett?
159
Syllogism and Enthymeme in Shakespeare
171
Synoiceosis and Antithesis in The Winters Tale
187
English Scots and the Scottish Literati
335
Zur Einschätzung des Vortrags
343
Modi der Naturdarstellung
359
Sprachreinheit puritas und die Entwicklung der modernen
373
Ein schulrhetorischer Begriff im Hinblick
381
JOSEF KOPPERSCHMIDT Erkelenz
415
Does Linguistics Contribute to the Decline and Fragmentation
433
Au quai?Okay Zur stilistischen Leistung des Wortspiels
447

On Mirror Structures in Poetic Discourse
199
Rhetoric in the Early Royal Society
215
Diltheys Hobbes and Ciceros Rhetoric
233
John Milton
261
Versification in Poetry and Drama
285
Die ShandyBrüder und
315
Anmerkungen zu einem rhetorikgeschicht
471
Urteile sind unverständlich
489
Über Totenreden
505
A Memoir
523
Bibliography of Publications by Heinrich F Plett
537
Copyright

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

About the author (1999)

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).

Bibliographic information