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English

This study guide gives students a handy reference to the background knowledge of rhetorical terms demanded of them by critical and theoretical texts in the humanities.

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Publié par

Humanities eBooks

Date de parution

11 janvier 2021

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9781847600240

Langue

English

European Literary criticism

Philosophy Insights General Editor: Mark Addis

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Rhetorical Terms An Introduction

Christopher Kelen

...the means by which we tell and re-ceive the stories that explain the world...

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An Introduction to Rhetorical Terms

Christopher Kelen

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Kelen, Christopher.An Introduction to Rhetorical Terms. Philosophy Insights. Tirril: Humanities-Ebooks, 2007

A Note on the Author

Christopher (Kit) Kelen is an Associate Professor at the University of Macau in south China, where he has taught Literature and Creative Writing for the last seven years. The most recent of Kelen's seven volumes of poetry,Eight Days in Lhasa was published by VAC in Chicago in 2006. A volume of Macao poems Dredging the Deltais forthcoming from Cinnamon Press in the U.K.

Contents

A Note on the Author

Preface: An Introduction to Rhetorical Terms A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms: old, new and recycled Words and Reality Classical and traditional tropes Simile Metaphor Personiîcation Metonymy Synecdoche Hyperbole Paradox Oxymoron Irony Euphemism Tautology (and other solecisms) Figures of time: Ellipsis Catachresis Non-tropes and near tropes: image, sign, symbol, motif, archetype, stereotype New tropes, Tropology today Inoculation Bricolage Perruque Differend Différance Limen, border Mirror

Frame Vector, ow Body tropes Topos and tropography

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Preface: An Introduction to Rhetorical Terms

This is a book with a practical purpose. It aims to give students a handy reference to the background knowledge of rhetorical terms demanded of them by critical and theoretical texts in the humanities. A common vocabulary is used today for cultural criticism and theory and for related sub-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary discourses (in philosophy, literary criticism, and indeed all the humanities). The western world’s twenty îrst century ‘renaissance’ scholar needs to be uent in the vocabulary which carries her across these disciplines. An important part of this vocabulary is in the rhe-torical terms we read and write, reason and refute by. These are the means by which we tell and receive the stories that explain the world. They are the means by which we imagine our own and others’ ideas. To read and equally to write theory today one needs to be able to negotiate a way among thesetropicmotions; one needs to master the terms with which motions in meaning are described. Amorphous and difîcult as this kind of learning is, it is of vital and personal importance. Through it one learns howone means what one means. It is through that kind of understanding one gets to decidewhatto mean.

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