Rhetoric and Drama

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2017

Rhetoric and Drama

Funded by: European Research Council (ERC)
Edited by: DS Mayfield

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110484663

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About this book

Proving fruitful in various applications throughout its two millennia of predominance, the rhetorical téchne appears to have entertained a particularly symbiotic interrelation with drama. With contributions from (among others) a Classicist, historical, linguistic, musicological, operatic, cultural and literary studies perspective, this publication offers interdisciplinary assessments of specific reciprocities between the system of rhetoric and dramatic works: tracing the longue durée of this nexus—highlighting its Ancient foundations, its various Early Modern formations, as well as certain configurations enduring to this day—enables describing shifting degrees of rhetoricity; approaching it from an interdisciplinary viewpoint facilitates focusing on the often sidelined rhetorical phenomena located beyond the textual plane, specifically memoria and actio; tackling this interchange from various viewpoints and with diverse emphases, a long-lasting and highly prolific cross-fertilization between drama and rhetoric is rendered visible. In tendering a balanced panorama of both detailed case studies and descriptive overviews, this volume also points toward terrain yet to be charted in the scholarship to come.

The volume was prepared in co-operation with the ERC Advanced Grant Project Early Modern European Drama and the Cultural Net (DramaNet).

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Daniel Scott Mayfield, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Preface
Interplay with Variation: Approaching Rhetoric and Drama D S Mayfield Publicly Available Download PDF	3
Case Studies
From the Refutation of Drama to the Drama of Refutation Kathy Eden Publicly Available Download PDF	55
The Castrato as a Rhetorical Figure Martha Feldman Publicly Available Download PDF	71
Family, City or State, and Theater: Carlo Gozzi and the Rhetoric of Conservatism Maria Galli Stampino Publicly Available Download PDF	97
Rhetoric and Early Modern Latin Drama. The Two Tragedies by the ‘Polish Pindar’ Simon Simonides (1558–1629): Castus Ioseph and Pentesilea Jan Bloemendal Publicly Available Download PDF	115
Verse Games. Meter and Interactional German in the Baroque Plays of Andreas Gryphius Jörg Wesche Publicly Available Download PDF	135
Rhetoric and the Cultural Net: Transnational Agencies of Culture Joachim Küpper Publicly Available Download PDF	151
Appendix
Drama Bernhard Asmuth Publicly Available Download PDF	179
Proceedings D S Mayfield Publicly Available Download PDF	203
Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	231
Index Publicly Available Download PDF	235

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Studierende und Forscher der Rhetorik, Theater- und Literaturwissenschaften
Pages
- Front matter: 10
- Main content: 244
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 4
Keywords: Antiquity; Cultural Studies; Theatre

eBook

Published: March 6, 2017
ISBN: 9783110484663

Hardcover

Published: March 6, 2017
ISBN: 9783110484595