Satans Rhetoric

Author : Armando Maggi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226501329
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Satan's Rhetoric written by Armando Maggi and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2001-09 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading innumerable treatises on demonology written during the Renaissance, including Thesaurus exorcismorum, the most important record of early modern exorcisms, Maggi finds repeated attempts to define the language exchanged between the fallen progeny of Adam, and the most notorious fallen angel of them all, Satan. Using points of departure taken from de Certeau and Lacan, Maggi shows that Satan articulates his language first and foremost in the mind. More than speaking, the devil tries to make human beings understand his language and speak it themselves.

Author : Victoria Kahn
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400821282
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Machiavellian Rhetoric written by Victoria Kahn and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1994-07-05 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians of political thought have argued that the real Machiavelli is the republican thinker and theorist of civic virtù. Machiavellian Rhetoric argues in contrast that Renaissance readers were right to see Machiavelli as a Machiavel, a figure of force and fraud, rhetorical cunning and deception. Taking the rhetorical Machiavel as a point of departure, Victoria Kahn argues that this figure is not simply the result of a naïve misreading of Machiavelli but is attuned to the rhetorical dimension of his political theory in a way that later thematic readings of Machiavelli are not. Her aim is to provide a revised history of Renaissance Machiavellism, particularly in England: one that sees the Machiavel and the republican as equally valid--and related--readings of Machiavelli's work. In this revised history, Machiavelli offers a rhetoric for dealing with the realm of de facto political power, rather than a political theory with a coherent thematic content; and Renaissance Machiavellism includes a variety of rhetorically sophisticated appreciations and appropriations of Machiavelli's own rhetorical approach to politics. Part I offers readings of The Prince, The Discourses, and Counter-Reformation responses to Machiavelli. Part II discusses the reception of Machiavelli in sixteenth-and seventeenth-century England. Part III focuses on Milton, especially Areopagitica, Comus, and Paradise Lost.

Author : David Parry
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350165158
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rhetoric of Conversion in English Puritan Writing from Perkins to Milton written by David Parry and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This rhetorical study of the persuasive practice of English Puritan preachers and writers demonstrates how they appeal to both reason and imagination in order to persuade their hearers and readers towards conversion, assurance of salvation and godly living. Examining works from a diverse range of preacher-writers such as William Perkins, Richard Sibbes, Richard Baxter and John Bunyan, this book maps out continuities and contrasts in the theory and practice of persuasion. Tracing the emergence of Puritan allegory as an alternative, imaginative mode of rhetoric, it sheds new light on the paradoxical question of how allegories such as John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress came to be among the most significant contributions of Puritanism to the English literary canon, despite the suspicions of allegory and imagination that were endemic in Puritan culture. Concluding with reflections on how Milton deploys similar strategies to persuade his readers towards his idiosyncratic brand of godly faith, this book makes an original contribution to current scholarly conversations around the textual culture of Puritanism, the history of rhetoric, and the rhetorical character of theology.

Author : Robert Finnegan
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 0889208123
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christ and Satan written by Robert Finnegan and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christ and Satan is the title of the last of four poems in the eleventh-century Junius XI manuscript of Anglo-Saxon poetry. This critical edition contains text, glossary, textual and explanatory notes, and an essay surveying former criticisms and setting forth the author’s ideas on the poem’s principle of unity. Of particular value to students and scholars of Old English, Christ and Satan makes an important contribution to the understanding of this fine and interesting poem.

Author : Will Pallister
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802098355
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Between Worlds written by Will Pallister and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Pallister analyses the rhetorical methods that Milton uses throughout the poem and examines the effects of the three distinct rhetorical registers observed in each of the poem's major settings.

Author : John Milton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paradise Lost written by John Milton and published by . This book was released on 1711 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Barbara Kiefer Lewalski
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400853958
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paradise Lost and the Rhetoric of Literary Forms written by Barbara Kiefer Lewalski and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive study interprets Paradise Lost as a rhetoric of literary forms, by attending to the broad spectrum of literary genres, modes, and exemplary works Milton incorporates within that poem. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Michael Strickland
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1506438474
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rhetoric of Jesus in the Gospel of Mark written by Michael Strickland and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young and Strickland analyze the four largest discourses of Jesus in Mark in the context of Greco-Roman rhetoric in an attempt to hear them as a first-century audience would have heard them. The authors demonstrate that, contrary to what some historical critics have suggested, first-century audiences of Mark would have found the discourses of Jesus unified, well-integrated, and persuasive. They also show how these speeches of the Markan Jesus contribute to Mark‘s overall narrative accomplishments.

Author : Wendy Olmsted
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470777214
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rhetoric written by Wendy Olmsted and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introduction to the art of rhetoric analyzes rhetorical concepts, problems, and methods and teaches practical inquiry through a series of classic rhetorical texts. An introduction to the art of rhetoric for those who are unacquainted with it and an argument about invention and tradition suitable for specialists Texts range from Cicero's De oratore and Augustine’s On Christian Doctrine to Jane Austen’s Persuasion and Stephen Greenblatt’s Marvellous Possessions Texts serve simultaneously as works of persuasion and considerations of how rhetoric works Engages readers in using rhetoric to deliberate about challenging issues.

Author : Ryan J. Stark
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813215781
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rhetoric, Science, and Magic in Seventeenth-century England written by Ryan J. Stark and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ryan J. Stark presents a spiritually sensitive, interdisciplinary, and original discussion of early modern English rhetoric. He shows specifically how experimental philosophers attempted to disenchant language