The Renaissance saw a renewed and energetic engagement with
classical rhetoric; recent years have seen a similar revival of
interest in Renaissance rhetoric. As Renaissance critics
recognised, figurative language is the key area of intersection
between rhetoric and literature. This book is the first modern
account of Renaissance rhetoric to focus solely on the figures of
speech. It reflects a belief that the figures exemplify the larger
concerns of rhetoric, and connect, directly or by analogy, to
broader cultural and philosophical concerns within early modern
society. Thirteen authoritative contributors have selected a
rhetorical figure with a special currency in Renaissance writing
and have used it as a key to one of the period''s characteristic
modes of perception, forms of argument, states of feeling or styles
of reading.
目錄：
Introduction: the figures in Renaissance theory and practice
Sylvia Adamson, Gavin Alexander and Katrin Ettenhuber
1. Synonymia: or, in other words Sylvia Adamson
2. Compar or Parison: measure for measure Russ McDonald
3. Periodos: squaring the circle Janel Mueller
4. Puns: serious wordplay Sophie Read
5. Prosopopoeia: the speaking figure Gavin Alexander
6. Ekphrasis: painting in words Claire Preston
7. Hysteron proteron, or the preposterous Patricia Parker
8. Paradiastole: redescribing the vices as virtues Quentin
Skinner
9. Syncrisis: the figure of contestation Ian Donaldson
10. Testimony: the artless proof R. W. Serjeantson
11. Hyperbole: exceeding similitude Katrin Ettenhuber
12. Metalepsis: the boundaries of metaphor Brian Cummings
13. The vices of style William Poole
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