Gracian, Wit, and the Baroque Age: 17 (Renaissance and Baroque Studies and Texts) - Hardcover

Zarate Ruiz, Arturo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0820426881 ISBN 13: 9780820426884

Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 1996

Synopsis

"Gracian, Wit, and the Baroque Age" offers a long-awaited thorough and systematic understanding of Baltasar Gracian's thought. Emphasizing Gracian's theories on wit, this book shows that these theories are meant to explain and give method to every apprehension of ideas; it orderly unveils Gracian's art of invention. It also places this art within Gracian's whole comprehensive doctrine of "senorio," that is, mastery. This book is grounded on an exhaustive analysis of Gracian's complete works, direct reviews of classical and baroque theories of wit, and of baroque exemplars of eloquence. This book provides a fair and close view of the baroque rhetoric, at last."

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Review:

-Baltasar Gracian's works, and especially his theories of wit, invention, style, and the operations of imagination and reason, have been neglected too long by modern students of rhetoric and the language arts. Arturo Zarate Ruiz's book rewards readers, who need not be specialists, with lucid discussion of Gracian's theories, as well as the links between Gracian's views and those of his recent and remote predecessors. This book, grounded in thorough research and rare insight, should assist development of contemporary theories of wit, invention, and style.- (Lloyd F. Bitzer, University of Wisconsin)
-Zarate Ruiz has made a significant contribution both to the study of Gracian and his times and to the history of rhetoric. His book is solidly grounded in the existing research and adds much of what is new concerning the interconnections among style, argument, and wit in Gracian. This book is essential reading for those interested in these issues from a theoretical perspective, as well as for students of literary and cultural history.- (Michael Leff, Northwestern University)
-Arturo Zarate Ruiz's book, 'Gracian, Wit, and the Baroque Age', is a truly impressive piece of scholarship. This comprehensive study illuminates the unjustly neglected contributions of Baltasar Gracian to the evolution of rhetorical thought and identifies the Spanish Jesuit's crucial role in the extraordinary intellectual enterprise of the Baroque era. There is nothing comparable to 'Gracian, Wit, and the Baroque Age' available in English - or in Spanish. Dr. Zarate Ruiz has firmly established Gracian as a key figure in the European rhetorical tradition.- (Don Paul Abbott, University of California, Davis)
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About the Author:

The Author: Arturo Zarate Ruiz is a nationally awarded Mexican journalist who currently works at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte as a researcher of US-Mexico border issues and arguments. He received his Ph.D. in Rhetorical Theory and History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison."

About this edition

• Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0820426881
• ISBN 13: 9780820426884
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 462