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Randall, Jennifer.

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Early medieval rhetoric: Epideictic underpinnings in Old English homilies.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Early medieval rhetoric: Epideictic underpinnings in Old English homilies./
Author:	Randall, Jennifer.
Description:	341 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-09, Section: A, page: .
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International72-09A.
Subject:	Literature, Classical. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3463445
ISBN:	9781124737775

Early medieval rhetoric: Epideictic underpinnings in Old English homilies.
Randall, Jennifer.

Early medieval rhetoric: Epideictic underpinnings in Old English homilies. - 341 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-09, Section: A, page: .

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Georgia State University, 2010.

Medieval rhetoric, as a field and as a subject, has largely been under-developed and under- emphasized within medieval and rhetorical studies for several reasons: the disconnect between Germanic, Anglo-Saxon society and the Greco-Roman tradition that defined rhetoric as an art; the problems associated with translating the Old and Middle English vernacular in light of rhetorical and, thereby, Greco-Latin precepts; and the complexities of the medieval period itself with the lack of surviving manuscripts, often indistinct and inconsistent political and legal structure, and widespread interspersion and interpolation of Christian doctrine. However, it was Christianity and its governance of medieval culture that preserved classical rhetoric within the medieval period through reliance upon the classic epideictic platform, which, in turn, became the foundation for early medieval rhetoric. The role of epideictic rhetoric itself is often undervalued within the rhetorical tradition because it appears too basic or less essential than the judicial or deliberative branches for in-depth study and analysis. Closer inspection of this branch reveals that epideictic rhetoric contains fundamental elements of human communication with the focus upon praise and blame and upon appropriate thought and behavior.

ISBN: 9781124737775Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017779
Literature, Classical.

Early medieval rhetoric: Epideictic underpinnings in Old English homilies.
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