Part I - Poetry in Rhetoric
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 August 2019
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This chapter traces key moments in the rhetorical tradition in the context of which the problematic relationship of difference and similarity between rhetorical and poetic discourse is evoked and discussed. The competing claims of affinity and difference between poetic and rhetorical discourse in Gorgias’ Helen, Isocrates, Aristotle, Cicero, Kant and others are analyzed as aspects of rhetoric’s self-definition.
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- Persuasion, Rhetoric and Roman Poetry , pp. 7 - 132Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019