Representations : images of the world in Ciceronian oratory /

Ann Vasaly introduces representation theory into the study of Ciceronian persuasion and contends that an understanding of milieu--social, political, topographical--is crucial to understanding Ciceronian oratory. As a genre uniquely dependent on an immediate interaction between author and audience, a...

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Autore principale: Vasaly, Ann
Ente Autore: California Digital Library. eScholarship
Natura: Licensed eBooks
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press ©1993.
Accesso online:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.2711589
Sommario:
  • Ambiance, rhetoric and the meaning of things
  • Transforming the visible: in Catilinam 1 and 3
  • Signa and signifiers: a world created
  • Ethos and Locus: ancient perspectives
  • Place and commonplace: country and city
  • Ethnic personae.