Rhetorical Strategies in Late Antique Literature: Images, Metatexts and Interpretation

Author:   Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas
Publisher:   Brill
Volume:   406
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9789004340091


Pages:   236
Publication Date:   29 June 2017
Format:   Hardback
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Rhetorical Strategies in Late Antique Literature: Images, Metatexts and Interpretation


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Rhetorical Strategies in Late Antique Literature: Images, Metatexts and Interpretation is a collection of essays that survey the rhetorical tropes and the metaliterary dimension of works by important authors in a period marked by intense and thriving contact between Classical paideia and Christian culture. The contributions of this volume dissect the reuse of Classical literature and the deployment of rhetorical techniques in the creation of texts and images meant for use in cultural and religious debates by building on recent interpretations of the late antique cultural landscape as a milieu in which our understanding of religious dichotomies requires a more nuanced reassessment. The authors treated in this volume include Eusebius of Caesarea, Methodius of Olympus, Gregory of Nazianzus, Nonnus and the emperor Julian.

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Author:   Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   406
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.507kg
ISBN:  

9789004340091


ISBN 10:   9004340092
Pages:   236
Publication Date:   29 June 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Language:   English, French

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Insgesamt bietet der Band sorgfaltige Analysen ausgewahlter Fallbeispiele zum Thema 'Rhetorik' und 'Rhetorisierung' in der spatantiken griechischen und lateinischen Literatur. Die gesteckten Ziele, namlich die klassische im Spannungsfeld zwischen heidnischer und christlicher Kultur zu zeigen und kreative Auseinandersetzungen spatantiker Autoren mit literarischen und visuellen Traditionen beispielhaft herauszuarbeiten, werden erreicht. Eine Lekture des Buches kann daher vorbehaltlos empfohlen werden. - Nicole Kroell, in: Plekos 21 (2019) Rhetorical Strategies in Late Antique Literature is a very inspiring high-quality collection of articles. All the contributions show, in a wonderful way, how vital, intelligent, amusing, and moving literature and rhetorical practices were in Late Antiquity. - Maijastina Kahlos, in: Zeitschrift Fur Antikes Christentum, ZAC 23/3 (2019)


Insgesamt bietet der Band sorgfaltige Analysen ausgewahlter Fallbeispiele zum Thema 'Rhetorik' und 'Rhetorisierung' in der spatantiken griechischen und lateinischen Literatur. Die gesteckten Ziele, namlich die klassische im Spannungsfeld zwischen heidnischer und christlicher Kultur zu zeigen und kreative Auseinandersetzungen spatantiker Autoren mit literarischen und visuellen Traditionen beispielhaft herauszuarbeiten, werden erreicht. Eine Lekture des Buches kann daher vorbehaltlos empfohlen werden. Nicole Kroell, Plekos 21, 2019.


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Alberto Quiroga Puertas, Ph.D. (2006, University of Granada), is Assistant Lecturer at the University of Granada. He has edited several books and published numerous articles on the role of rhetoric in the context of late antique religious and cultural debates. Contributors are: Javier Campos Daroca, Ryan C. Fowler, Guadalupe Lopetegui Semperena, Leonardo Lugaresi, Byron MacDougall, Laura Miguélez-Cavero, Lorenzo Miletti, Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas, José B. Torres Guerra, and Lieve Van Hoof.

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