Rhetoric beyond Words : Delight and Persuasion in the Arts of the Middle Ages Paperback / softback
Edited by Mary (Professor and Fellow, New York University) Carruthers
Part of the Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature series
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In the Middle Ages, liturgies, books, song, architecture and poetry were performed as collaborative activities in which performers and audience together realized their work anew.
In this book, essays by leading scholars analyse how the medieval arts invited and delighted in collaborative performances designed to persuade.
The essays cast fresh light on subjects ranging from pilgrim processions within Chartres Cathedral, to polyphonic song, and the 'rhetoric of silence' perfected by the Cistercians.
Rhetoric is defined broadly in this book to encompass its relationship to its sister arts of music, architecture, and painting, all of which use materials and media in addition to words, sometimes altogether without words.
Contributors have concentrated on those aspects of formal rhetoric that are performative in nature, the sound, gesture and facial expressions of persuasive speech in action.
Delivery (performance) is shown to be at the heart of rhetoric, that aspect of it which is indeed beyond words.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:332 pages, 7 Printed music items; 2 Tables, black and white; 23 Halftones, unspecified; 6 Line drawi
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:05/12/2013
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- ISBN:9781107647770
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In Stock - low on stock, only 1 copy remainingFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:332 pages, 7 Printed music items; 2 Tables, black and white; 23 Halftones, unspecified; 6 Line drawi
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:05/12/2013
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- ISBN:9781107647770