
- Title : Homeric Speech and the Origins of Rhetoric
- Author : Rachel Ahern Knudsen
- Rating : 4.78 (978 Vote)
- Publish : 2015-3-9
- Format : Hardcover
- Pages : 248 Pages
- Asin : 1421412268
- Language : English
But do such explanations constitute the true origins of rhetoric as an identifiable, systematic practice? If not, where does a technique-driven rhetoric first appear in literary and social history? Perhaps the answer is in Homeric epics. Based on a close analysis of persuasive speeches in the Iliad, Knudsen argues that Homeric
But do such explanations constitute the true origins of rhetoric as an identifiable, systematic practice? If not, where does a technique-driven rhetoric first appear in literary and social history? Perhaps the answer is in Homeric epics. Based on a close analysis of persuasive speeches in the Iliad, Knudsen argues that Homeric poetry displays a systematic and technical concept of rhetoric and that many Iliadic speakers in fact employ the rhetorical techniques put forward by Aristotle.Rhetoric, in its earliest formulation in ancient Greece, was conceived as the power to change a listener’s actions or attitudes through wordsparticularly through persuasive techniques and argumentation. In the latter field, it challenges the traditional account of the development of rhetoric, probing the boundaries that currently demarcate its origins, history, and relationship to poetry.. Homeric Speech and the Origins of Rhetoric demoAbout the AuthorRachel Ahern Knudsen is a lecturer in classics at Santa Clara University. Rachel Ahern Knudsen is a lecturer in classics at Santa Clara University.


No comments:
Post a Comment