Ancient Rhetorical Theories of Simile and Comparison: 2 (Loeb Classical Library) - Hardcover

McCall Jr, Marsh H

 
9780674186361: Ancient Rhetorical Theories of Simile and Comparison: 2 (Loeb Classical Library)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0674186362 ISBN 13: 9780674186361
Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1969

Synopsis

This study is a detailed analysis of the ancient terms of comparison and their nature, scope, and purpose. The author explores the use of these terms of comparison from aristotle’s predecessors to the beginning of the late technical treatises. He concludes that the ancient critics were interested not in form but in purpose and method; that comparison was rarely discussed as an isolated component of rhetoric but was paired with either metaphor or historical example; and that ancient criticism did not distinguish simile as an independent figure of comparison.

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Publisher
Harvard University Press
Publication date
1969
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0674186362
ISBN 13 
9780674186361
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
284

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