Book Review| August 01 2010 Review: Epicedio per Eteoneo. Epitafio per Alessandro. Millennium, Collana di testi greci e latini 7, by Elisabetta Berardi and Elio Aristide Elisabetta BerardiElio Aristide. Epicedio per Eteoneo. Epitafio per Alessandro. Millennium, Collana di testi greci e latini 7, Alessandria, 2006, 276 pp. ISBN: 8876949062. Rhetorica (2010) 28 (3): 334–337. https://doi.org/10.1525/RH.2010.28.3.334 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Review: Epicedio per Eteoneo. Epitafio per Alessandro. Millennium, Collana di testi greci e latini 7, by Elisabetta Berardi and Elio Aristide. Rhetorica 1 August 2010; 28 (3): 334–337. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/RH.2010.28.3.334 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentRhetorica Search This content is only available via PDF. © 2010 by The International Society for the History of Rhetoric. All rights reserved.2010 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Other| August 01 2010 Addresses of Contributors to this issue Rhetorica (2010) 28 (3): 348–349. https://doi.org/10.1525/RH.2010.28.3.348 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Addresses of Contributors to this issue. Rhetorica 1 August 2010; 28 (3): 348–349. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/RH.2010.28.3.348 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentRhetorica Search This content is only available via PDF. © 2010 by The International Society for the History of Rhetoric. All rights reserved.2010 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| August 01 2010 Review: Retorica e storia. Una lettura delle Suasoriae di Seneca Padre, by Elvira Migliario Elvira MigliarioRetorica e storia. Una lettura delle Suasoriae di Seneca Padre, Bari: Edipuglia (Quaderni di ‘Invigilata lucernis’, 32), 2007, 192 pp. ISBN: 9788872284651. Rhetorica (2010) 28 (3): 330–333. https://doi.org/10.1525/RH.2010.28.3.330 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Review: Retorica e storia. Una lettura delle Suasoriae di Seneca Padre, by Elvira Migliario. Rhetorica 1 August 2010; 28 (3): 330–333. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/RH.2010.28.3.330 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentRhetorica Search This content is only available via PDF. © 2010 by The International Society for the History of Rhetoric. All rights reserved.2010 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| August 01 2010 Review: Papers on Rhetoric IX, by Lucia Calboli Montefusco Lucia Calboli Montefusco(ed.), Papers on Rhetoric IX, Roma: Herder, 2008, VIII, 240 pp. ISBN: 9788889670385. Rhetorica (2010) 28 (3): 343–347. https://doi.org/10.1525/RH.2010.28.3.343 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Review: Papers on Rhetoric IX, by Lucia Calboli Montefusco. Rhetorica 1 August 2010; 28 (3): 343–347. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/RH.2010.28.3.343 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentRhetorica Search © 2010 by The International Society for the History of Rhetoric. All rights reserved.2010 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

We often hear it said that today is the era of rhetoric, but we do not yet have a rhetoric general enough to include both Western and Asian rhetorics. Here I try to show how the rhetoric of communication could operate as such a framework with special reference to the history of Korean rhetoric. I investigate the history of the term “susa,” present milestones in the history of Korean rhetoric, and use as illustration several cases of the rhetoric of “dakkeum.” Finally, 1 shall insist on the need for further development of the rhetoric of communication towards a global rhetoric.

337 Reviews exhaustivité, tant les domaines qu'elles cherchent à circonscrire sont innom­ brables (lexique, stylistique, histoire, civilisation, épigraphie, métrique etc.). Le revers de la médaille de ce choix, c'est que certaines notes sembleront par­ fois trop longues, se perdant parfois dans des sortes de digressions, toujours passionnantes, mais peu en rapport avec l'objet initial (par ex. la note du§ 23, pp. 243-47). L'ensemble de l'ouvrage se révèle une source précieuse pour la connais­ sance d Aristide, et plus spécifiquement, de deux discours injustement tom­ bés dans 1 oubli durant plusieurs siècles. On ne peut qu'être reconnaissant à B. de nous livrer une étude aussi fournie: un livre, assurément, qui est un jalon important dans les études aristidiennes qui se multiplient depuis quelques temps. Jean-Luc Vix Université de Strasbourg Philip Vogt, John Locke and the Rhetoric of Modernity, Plymouth, UK: Lexington, 2008. 197 pp. ISBN: 0739123564 Locke's attack on rhetoric in Book III of his Essay Concerning Human Understanding has become notorious. Indeed, his accusation that "all the Art of Rhetorick" together with "all the artificial and figurative application of Words" are a "perfect cheat" has become in many ways indicative of an apparent marginalization of rhetoric in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Locke's point was that any tropological comparison of a thing to something that it is not is, in effect, a lie consciously chosen by the orator to maximize the possibility that the matter under discussion will be perceived by the auditor in the way that the orator wishes. In this way, auditors are cheated—the interests of others substituted for their own—and, thus, in any discursive pursuit that has truth (as opposed to interest) as its goal, rhetoric must be regarded as a threat. Historians of rhetoric have heard such accusations so often that they are liable to ignore Locke's complaint. But there have been some sophisti­ cated treatments of Locke's pessimism about language not least Hannah Dawson's recent work on Locke, Language and Early-Modern Philosophy (Cam­ bridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007). In that work, Dawson argues that Locke's wariness of language is informed by the most significant insights of his epistemology. Words equivocate because all individuals connote words differently and in accordance with sequences of their own private experi­ ences that are publically unavailable. Moreover, different people will clas­ sify the same phenomenon in different ways what is courageous to some is foolhardy to others—because phenomena are often genuinely difficult to distinguish and because each distinction is itself a finely balanced choice be­ tween similarity and difference, fancy and judgment. Dawson claims rightly 338 RHETORICA that for Locke such equivocation—both terminological and paradiastolic—is endemic and cognitively foundational. But despite the plausibility of the argument that Locke's pessimism about language entails a thorough-going repudiation of rhetoric, there is another scholarly tradition—running through (for example) Leibniz, de Man, and Walker—that interprets Lockean epistemology through the lens of rhetoric's theorization of the tropes (Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Nouveaux Essais sur EEntendement Humain (Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1962); Paul de Man, "The Epistemology of Metaphor," Critical Inquiry 5 (1978): 13-30; William Walker, Locke, Literary Criticism, and Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge Uni­ versity Press, 1994)). Philip Vogt's John Locke and the Rhetoric ofModernity is, in large part, to be situated in this tradition. In particular, Vogt emphasizes Locke's investment in the theory and practice of analogy. Citing a text that in his opinion has been unjustifiably marginalized in Locke scholarship (the text in question is "An Examination of Malebranche's Opinion of Seeing All Things in God"), Vogt argues that there is a "rule of Analogy" that regulates Lockean thought. According to this rule, the human mind uses that with which it is familiar in order to judge that with which it is unfamiliar (pp. 18, 21). Vogt's claim that the trope of analogy plays a significant role in Locke's epistemology is significant and worthy of attention. It is essential to his argument that—pace the litany of scholars who have repeated the myth— Locke does not ultimately conceive...

This essay offers “material rhetoric” as a new addition to the usual list of categories used to describe rhetoric in the eighteenth century (neoclassical, belletristic, elocutionary, epistemological/psychological) by examining the material elements of treatises written by Joseph Priestley and Gilbert Austin. Those material elements—namely heat, passion, and impression—are tracked through Priestley and Austin’s scientific writings, thereby positioning their particular strains of material rhetoric as legacies of philosophical chemistry.

Reviews Elvira Migliario, Retorica e storia. Una lettura delle Suasoriae di Seneca Padre, Bari: Edipuglia (Quaderni di 'Invigilata lucernis', 32), 2007,192 pp. ISBN: 9788872284651 Elvira Migliario (d'ora innanzi M.) aveva giá offerto un contributo im­ portante sul rapporto tra declamazione di scuola e contesto politico-sociale ("Luoghi retorici e realtà sociale nell'opera di Seneca il Vecchio", Athenaeum 67 (1989): 525-49); ora recupera—sin dal titolo della sua monografía—la medesima prospettiva di indagine dirigendo la propria analisi sul corpus delle Suasoriae di Seneca il Vecchio: non un vero e proprio commento, piuttosto un'ampia e articolata introduzione alla raccolta nel suo complesso e ai sette singoli pezzi che la compongono, il cui testo opportunamente la M. stampa in calce aU'analisi, cavándolo dall'edizione ormai canónica di Lennart Hâkanson. La succinta introduzione (pp. 5-10) presenta hipótesi di lavoro che ha guidato la ricerca: «una lettura e una interpretazione delle suasoriae volte ... a individuarvi argomenti e temi oggetto di attenzione e riflessione da parte dei contemporanei» (p. 6), a partiré dalla consapevolezza della centralita assunta in età giulio-claudia dalle scuole di retorica come luogo deputato «alia definizione del sistema di valori destinato a essere ampiamente condivido dai ceti colti e dalle classi dirigenti dell'impero» (p. 10). II primo capitolo (Seneca Padre e le scuole di retorica a Roma, pp. 11-31) traccia opportunamente una sintesi aggiornata di quanto oggi si sa—in particolare dopo le monografie di Lewis Sussman e di Jean Lairweather—sulla biografía di questo insaziabile amateur della declamazione, mettendone in luce i rapporti con il milieu di provenienza e i contatti stabiliti dopo l'arrivo a Roma; la M. illumina quindi il fenómeno delle scuole di retorica e in particolare il nuovo profilo che esse assumono con il passaggio all'età impériale, allorché le esercitazioni divennero non solo «il principale veicolo di trasmissione dei codici di comportamento ritenuti appropriati per i cittadini romani dei ceti superiori», ma anche il «mezzo attraverso il quale quegli stessi co­ dici culturali venivano messi in discussione», o in ogni casso si aprivano al dibattito ed eventualmente alla contestazione (p. 21). Al tempo stesso, la M. viene chiarendo un obiettivo che resta poi centrale in tutto il saggio: il Rhetorica, Vol. XXVIII, Issue 3, pp. 330—349, ISSN 0734-8584, electronic ISSN 15338541 . ©2010 by The International Society for the History of Rhetoric. All rights re­ served. Please direct all requests for permission to photocopy or reproduce article content through the University of California Press's Rights and Permissions website, at http://www.ucpressjournals.com/reprintlnfo.asp. DOI: 10.1525/RH.2010.28.3.330. Reviews 331 tentativo di fornire un adeguato inquadramento prosopografico dei retori citati da Seneca, distinguendo in particolare una generazione piú anziana, testimone degli sconvolgimenti legati al crollo della repubblica aristocrática, e una piú giovane, formatasi ormai in piena età augustea e talora attiva ancora sotto Tiberio. Questa indagine conferma come l'antologia senecana nasca dalTassemblaggio di materiali prodotti in sessioni declamatorie anche molto distanti nel tempo, atierenti a retori di generazioni diverse: cosí, gli excerpta conservad nelle suasorio sulla figura di Alessandro risultano scaglionati lungo un periodo di almeno cinquant'anni (p. 53). II secondo capitolo (Le deelamazioui deliberative fra la tarda età repubblicana e il primo pnneipato, pp. 33-50) offre una succinta ricostruzione del processo evolutivo che, a partiré dalle prime scuole di retorica e dall'apparire della più risalente manualistica in materia, all'inizio del I secolo a.C., conduce alla forma che la suasoria assume nell'età di Seneca. Di questo processo si illuminano i precedenti greci e se ne segue lo sviluppo attraverso le testimonianze offerte dalla Rhetorica ad Herennium: qui, in particolare, sono attestate deliberationes—non ancora suasoriae—relative al conflitto romano-cartaginese e ai suoi protagonisti (da Annibale a Scipione Emiliano), ma anche concer­ nent! la guerra sociale; compare inoltre almeno un esempio di esercitazione sulla figura di Alessandro, che impegnerà poi due delle suasorie senecane. Si discutono poi la testimonianza e la specifica terminología offerte dalle opere retoriche di Cicerone, declamatore in proprio e nel contesto di una sorta di insegnamento privato cui...

340 RHETORICA to be monitored by the community and that is balanced by an ethics, psy­ chology, and political theory emphasizing isolated, estranged, and restive individuals (pp. 142-45). The image of the modern Lockean individual that Vogt advances is that of the chastened explorer, conscious of the perils of the voyage of discovery undertaken with imperfect tools, but confident in his ability to overcome as yet unknown challenges. Vogt attempts to formulate a strong version of Lockean modernity in order to shed light on what he terms "the strong attack on Lockean modernity" that he perceives in the work of Burke, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche (p. 6). In those thinkers there is, for Vogt, a more precise pessimism. In their hands, Locke's nautical metaphors entail a much greater risk of disorientation. In this reading, the Burkean sublime is a chaste riposte to Locke's cheerful analogizing, a critique of even a figural empiricism's ability to deal with the measureless. Vogt reads the marine paintings of Caspar David Friedrich and J. M. W. Turner to undermine the notion that maritime life is a storehouse of figures that stand for challenges overcome. Many of the things that Vogt has to say with regard to this strong attack on the strong version of Lockean modernity are suggestive. But it is not clear that a monograph on Locke was the best place to explore these complex issues with the sustained attention that they deserve. David L. Marshall Kettering University Juliet Cummins and David Burchell (eds.), Science, Literature and Rhetoric in Early Modern England (Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity Series), Aldershot (England) and Burlington (Ver­ mont): Ashgate, 2007. 241 pp. ISBN: 9780754657811 The intent of this collection of essays is to "present new insights" about the "interaction of science, literature and rhetoric" in the development, reception, and dissemination of scientific knowledge in early modernity. The studies emanate from a symposium of scholars held at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. The editors promise in the introduction a wide angled book that will encompass the cultural, political, and social elements of the new science. This has been accomplished to a large degree, even if at times the treatment is a bit parochial in its regional view of science and narrow historical perspective. In addition, rhetoric, left undefined, permits a diffuse sense of the term, and a vague notion that it pervades discourse. But despite these shortcomings, the book offers a rich, lively, innovative collection of essays that illuminate selected literary texts of the period. Several of the essays stand out for their clarity and scholarship. Peter Harrison's "Truth, Utility, and the Natural Sciences in Early Modern Eng­ land" avoids parochialism in its treatment of changing opinions regarding Reviews 341 natural science vis a vis the humanities. Harrison begins his essay with Sir Philip Sidney's weighing of knowledge for its moral usefulness and his elevation of the particular as key to understanding the universal in "The Defence of Poesy. Earlier the studia }iu matiitutis had revamped education for its social and moral utility as well (p. 17). The essay, with apt illustrations from the writings of the virtuosi and their commentators, shows that a similar moral evaluation was being applied to the study of natural philosophy in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. The discipline was thought to aid in the development of virtue through the habits of careful study required of its practitioners. And it turned minds to regard the purpose of their labors as the betterment of mankind. Thus, the moral value of the philosophers' work eventually made the occupation socially acceptable, despite critics' ridicule of experiments performed at meetings of the Royal Society. With impressive erudition, David Burchell analyzes Hobbes' style and its debt to both Seneca and Cicero. His essay, '"A Plain Blunt Man'; Hobbes, Science, and Rhetoric Revisited," has only a tenuous connection to science, but it clarifies the relation of rhetoric to science in the period. Burchell successfully rebuts those who have claimed that Hobbes rejected rhetoric and adopted instead a "clear and perspicuous" style to foster better scientific debate. Burchell shows that Hobbes had, instead, a very broad knowledge of rhetoric and used different...

Reviews 343 the history of science have become familiar with the significance of rhetoric to their discipline and like to announce its presence in their studies. But it is surprising that a book with a title such as this one, save for a few of its ten essays, evinces scant interest in the nature of the art itself and displays little sophistication in the use of its tools. Jean Dietz Moss The Catholic University ofAmerica Lucia Calboli Montefusco (ed.), Papers on Rhetoric IX, Roma: Herder, 2008, VIII, 240 pp. ISBN: 9788889670385 Nel IV secolo a.C. Platone pensó alie parole e alie cose come ad immagini visibili di modelli invisibili, a ciascuna di esse come ad una mimesis di una realtá incommensurabilmente migliore. Egli chiamó paradeigmata i modelli invisibili e pensó alie cose e alie parole come a rappresentazioni di tali modelli: ciascuna tesa ad eguagliare il proprio paradeigma, rendendolo cosí disponibile alio sguardo umano. Tutto ció che é visibile, con gli occhi del corpo (le cose) o con quelli della mente (le parole), é un esempio concreto, é un mimema, di una realtá eidetica, e quest'ultima é sensibilmente visibile solo attraverso i suoi mimemata. Questa maniera di pensare la relazione tra modello e mondo (una maniera tutta platónica ma con matrici marcatamente eleatiche) é alia base del modo antico di pensare la retorica e la poesía: se ció che é visibile é pensabile come una rappresentazione dell'invisibile, allora, per rendere evidente ció che é oscuro, bisogna cercare, o inventare, di esso, esempi luminosi, rappresentazioni comprensibili; bisogna allestire, con le parole, una visibilitá dell'invisibile, una sua luminositá, una sua evidentia. In questo straordinario volume a cura di Lucia Calboli Montefusco, nel quale si raccolgono dodici delle relazioni tenute alia XVI Conference della ISHR, tenutasi a Strasburgo nel mese di luglio del 2007, é possibile individuare, quale filo rosso che unisce quasi tutte le relazioni, proprio questa idea della retorica e della poesía, che mostrano la loro syngeneia nell'essere luogo dell'allestimento dell'evidentia. II primo dei papers (pp. 1-31) é di Francesco Berardi: La retorica e la preghiera: alcune considerazioni sullTCj.pfzrj. ne/Z'Explanatio psalmorum di Cassiodoro; esso riguarda, cioé, quel testo che rappresenta Fuñico commento di natura retorica, tra quelli pervenuti, alia preghiera cristiana per eccellenza, il Salterio. Berardi sottolinea come i retori distinguano mille aspetti di quelFunica qualitá discorsiva che consiste nel "dipingere le immagini dei fatti attraverso le parole" e come tra i retori possa essere collocato a ragione anche 1 Anonymus Ecksteinii dal cui manuale di Schemata dianoeas Cassiodoro ha attinto la dottrina delle figure retoriche, i nomi e le definizioni dell7enargeia. Con quest ultimo termine si indica «Fevidenza visiva con cui Fimmaginazione letteraria si presenta alia mente di chi la elabora, vuoi che si tratti dell'autore che la concepisce e la 344 RHETORICA esprime nel testo, vuoi che si tratti del lettore che la legge e la rielabora». Berardi analizza accuratamente, e con ricchezza di riferimenti alia letteratura primaria e secondaria, i mille espedienti tecnici delYenargeia, tra cui—ma è solo un esempio—huso delle voci verbali al presente in luogo del futuro, espedienti che rivelano anche come Cassiodoro sia lettore non pedissequo dell'Anonymus. Il secondo dei papers (pp. 33-52) è di Gualtiero Calboli: The knowledge of the Rhetorica ad Herennium from later Roman Empire to early Middle Ages in northen Italy ed è teso a mostrare come, nel periodo indicato , nel nord della penisola italica, fosse diffuso un grande interesse per le opere retoriche di Cicerone, tra le quali veniva annoverata la Rhetorica ad Herennium, e come esse fossero non solo cítate, ma largamente impiegate. L'autore segue il percorso di queste opere dall'Africa alia Spagna dei Visigoti , mostra come Cassiodoro sia stato fonte di Isidoro, e come e perché all'origine dell'attribuzione a Cicerone della ad Herennium siano da situare Saint Jerome's works, impiegate da tanti autori cristiani. Il terzo contributo, riportato nel volume alie pagine 53-76, L'evidenza esemplare dellafollia d'amore di Polifemo (Teocrito, Idillio 11), firmato da Maria Silvana Celentano, riporta in primo piano, dopo il testo di Calboli, incentrato su questioni di storia della tradizione testuale, la questione dell'evidentia. L'autrice mostra come...

Book Review| May 01 2010 Review: Retorica ed educazione delle élites nell'antica Roma. Atti della VI Giornata ghisleriana di Filologia Classica (Pavia, 4–5 aprile 2006), by F. Gasti-E. Romano F. Gasti-E. Romano, eds., Retorica ed educazione delle élites nell'antica Roma. Atti della VI Giornata ghisleriana di Filologia Classica (Pavia, 4–5 aprile 2006), Pavia: Ibis, 2008. 280pp. ISBN 8871642562. Rhetorica (2010) 28 (2): 222–226. https://doi.org/10.1525/RH.2010.28.2.222 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Review: Retorica ed educazione delle élites nell'antica Roma. Atti della VI Giornata ghisleriana di Filologia Classica (Pavia, 4–5 aprile 2006), by F. Gasti-E. Romano. Rhetorica 1 May 2010; 28 (2): 222–226. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/RH.2010.28.2.222 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentRhetorica Search This content is only available via PDF. © 2010 by The International Society for the History of Rhetoric. All rights reserved.2010 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| May 01 2010 Review: The Eloquence of Mary Astell, by Christine Mason Sutherland, Rhetoric, Women and Politics in Early Modern England, by Jennifer Richards, Rhetoric, by Jennifer Richards Christine Mason SutherlandThe Eloquence of Mary Astell, Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2005. xxi + 202pp. ISBN 1552381536.Jennifer Richards and Alison Thorne, eds. Rhetoric, Women and Politics in Early Modern England, London and New York: Routledge, 2007. x + 254pp. ISBN 978-0-415-38527-5.Jennifer RichardsRhetoric (The New Critical Idiom), London and New York: Routledge, 2008. 198pp. ISBN 978-0-415-31436-7. Rhetorica (2010) 28 (2): 232–235. https://doi.org/10.1525/RH.2010.28.2.232 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Review: The Eloquence of Mary Astell, by Christine Mason Sutherland, Rhetoric, Women and Politics in Early Modern England, by Jennifer Richards, Rhetoric, by Jennifer Richards. Rhetorica 1 May 2010; 28 (2): 232–235. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/RH.2010.28.2.232 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentRhetorica Search This content is only available via PDF. © 2010 by The International Society for the History of Rhetoric. All rights reserved.2010 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| May 01 2010 Review: Rhetoric: An Historical Introduction, by Wendy Olmsted and On Eloquence, by Denis Donoghue Wendy OlmstedRhetoric: An Historical Introduction, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2006, 157pp. ISBN 1405117737.Denis DonoghueOn Eloquence, New Haven, London: Yale University Press, 2008, 197pp. ISBN 0300125410. Rhetorica (2010) 28 (2): 238–241. https://doi.org/10.1525/RH.2010.28.2.238 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Review: Rhetoric: An Historical Introduction, by Wendy Olmsted and On Eloquence, by Denis Donoghue. Rhetorica 1 May 2010; 28 (2): 238–241. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/RH.2010.28.2.238 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentRhetorica Search This content is only available via PDF. © 2010 by The International Society for the History of Rhetoric. All rights reserved.2010 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

This article offers a thorough analysis of the issue of conjecture (στοχασμόϛ) as described in Hermogenes of Tarsus' On Issues. The rhetorician's theory is completed with the explanations from its most important exegeses: Syrianus, Sopater (Rhetores Graeci 5 Walz), Sopater-Syrianus-Marcellinus (Rhetores Graeci 4 Walz), fundamentally, and the Anonymous Commentary (Rhetores Graeci 7 Walz). Scholia are essential because they help us to understand the Hermogenic text, pointing out its strengths and weaknesses. They also contribute to tracing the whole of the rhetorical tradition previous to, contemporary with, and after Hermogenes.

Book Review| May 01 2010 Review: The Rhetoric of the Conscience in Donne, Herbert, and Vaughan, by Ceri Sullivan Ceri Sullivan. The Rhetoric of the Conscience in Donne, Herbert, and Vaughan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. xiv + 275pp. ISBN 019954784X. Rhetorica (2010) 28 (2): 236–238. https://doi.org/10.1525/RH.2010.28.2.236 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Review: The Rhetoric of the Conscience in Donne, Herbert, and Vaughan, by Ceri Sullivan. Rhetorica 1 May 2010; 28 (2): 236–238. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/RH.2010.28.2.236 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentRhetorica Search This content is only available via PDF. © 2010 by The International Society for the History of Rhetoric. All rights reserved.2010 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

In seventeenth-century France, the one context in which it was possible to publicly criticize the monarch was the pulpit. Yet, in delivering criticism, the court preacher had to avoid sounding too harsh not only for fear of giving offense but for fear the sovereign might cease listening altogether. This paper examines the rhetorical techniques by which the preacher could indirectly—and hence “safely”—criticize the king. As we see from Bossuet's “Sermon sur la prédication évangélique” (1662), far from being a simple means of cajoling, these techniques attempted to provide the preacher with the most effective means for delivering bold criticism.

Book Review| May 01 2010 Review: Arte del discorso politico, by Anonimo Segueriano Anonimo SeguerianoArte del discorso politico, edizionecritica, traduzione e commento a cura di Dionigi Vottero, Alessandria: dell'Orso editore, 2004. vi + 572pp. ISBN 8876947507. Rhetorica (2010) 28 (2): 226–231. https://doi.org/10.1525/RH.2010.28.2.226 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Review: Arte del discorso politico, by Anonimo Segueriano. Rhetorica 1 May 2010; 28 (2): 226–231. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/RH.2010.28.2.226 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentRhetorica Search This content is only available via PDF. © 2010 by The International Society for the History of Rhetoric. All rights reserved.2010 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

In his avowedly Stoic De Officiis, Cicero publicizes the persuasive power of a conversational manner, a communicative style consonant with Stoicism's emphasis on human togetherness. The relationships between and among conversation (sermo), Stoicism, and rhetoric call for scrutiny, especially since in other works Cicero decries the uselessness of Stoicism to orators of res publica. By connecting Stoicism with sermo, and sermo with oratory-glory, Cicero fits Stoicism to Rome's political contours and also ushers future leaders of public affairs into both rhetorical and philosophical conversation—mild-mannered modes of discourse—during a politically turbulent time.

Other| May 01 2010 Addresses of Contributors to this issue Rhetorica (2010) 28 (2): 242–243. https://doi.org/10.1525/RH.2010.28.2.242 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Addresses of Contributors to this issue. Rhetorica 1 May 2010; 28 (2): 242–243. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/RH.2010.28.2.242 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentRhetorica Search This content is only available via PDF. © 2010 by The International Society for the History of Rhetoric. All rights reserved.2010 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

In his avowedly Stoic De Officiis, Cicero publicizes the persuasive power of a conversational manner, a communicative style consonant with Stoicism’s emphasis on human togetherness. The relationships between and among conversation (sermo), Stoicism, and rhetoric call for scrutiny, especially since in other works Cicero decries the uselessness of Stoicism to orators of res publica. By connecting Stoicism with sermo, and sermo with oratory-glory, Cicero fits Stoicism to Rome’s political contours and also ushers future leaders of public affairs into both rhetorical and philosophical conversation—mild-mannered modes of discourse—during a politically turbulent time.

232 RHETORICA Christine Mason Sutherland, The Eloquence of Mary Astell, Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2005. xxi + 202pp. ISBN 1552381536; Jen­ nifer Richards and Alison Thorne, eds., Rhetoric, Women and Politics in Early Modern England, London and New York: Routledge, 2007. x + 254pp. ISBN 978-0-415-38527-5; Jennifer Richards, Rhetoric (The New Critical Idiom), London and New York: Routledge, 2008.198pp. ISBN 978-0-415-31436-7 If early modern men were educated to speak, then early modern women were educated (if at all) to be silent, and the three books under review add to the still growing pile in which modern feminist historians—educated, of course, to be highly articulate—try to negotiate this difficult and troubling fact. They do so in various ways. Christine Sutherland, for example, presents the learned and prolific Mary Astell (1666-1731) as a remarkable exception to the rule. As she is the first to admit, even those enlightened humanist figures who had argued for female education in the sixteenth century did not go so far as to allow women to speak in public or to argue in print. Rather, they endorsed a silence that was, in Sutherland's words, "the feminine equivalent of the masculine virtue of eloquence" (p. 18). In spite of this cultural discour­ agement, however, and a class position that offered her no privileges to speak of, Mary Astell devoted her life to writing—and publishing—a series of re­ ligious, philosophical, and political works. Sutherland's main justification in presenting her subject as above all else a "practising rhetorician" (p. 53) is her claim that, in the course of her writing career, Astell moved from the relatively private genre of sermo to the more public genre of contentio, these two literary modes being gendered as "feminine" and "masculine" respec­ tively. In terms of Astell's publications—which range from works published in the letter format (such as her—originally private—correspondence with John Norris, published anonymously as Letters Concerning the Love ofGod, or her Serious Proposal to the Ladies, addressed to high-ranking women) to what were effectively treatises addressed to a wider reading public (such as Some Reflections upon Marriage, The Christian Religion, or her political pamphlets), this is not particularly contentious. There are times, however, when I think Sutherland overstates her case. The fact, for example, that Astell adapts her style and tone according to her destined audience—developing a "tender" and "maternal" voice when addressing a specifically female readership, and a more strident, argumentative one for everyone else—certainly demon­ strates a sensitivity to and understanding of decorum on her part, but is not in itself the major contribution to rhetorical theory that is claimed for it. This book also shows a (sometimes explicit) tendency toward self-reflection: that is to say, what makes Astell so remarkable a figure—and the natural choice of subject for a book of this kind—seems to be precisely the wav in which she comes to exemplify the feminist writer (otherwise so absent from the early modern scene) and to mirror the feminist academic who is writing or reading about her. Thus Astell's correspondence with Norris, for Reviews 233 example, is said to be an experience of further education that we might compare with the modern graduate school" (p. 42), and to have the same qualities as most good tutorial relationships" (p. 48); the letter-writing that she cultivated was the early modern equivalent of publishing in "learned journals (p. xx, citing with approval an article by Judith Rice Henderson). In her political pamphlets Astell emerges as the model scholar who "had read all the relevant books and documents, had studied all the arguments, and above all was thoroughly familiar with the historical background" (p. 117). By the end of the book, Astell is presented as being of "benefit" to "modern feminist scholars" precisely because she is "one of the earliest of their kind" (p. 153). This is not in any way to diminish Astell's achievement, of course, but only to raise the concern that, in situations where the reader is invited to identify with the subject in hand, a degree of critical distance might be...

226 RHETORICA«non é forse in grado di riproporre ... ¡'atmosfera di amichevole e proficua discussione dell'incontro di Pavía» ma certo ne richiama efficacemente la memoria a chi fu presente e offre agli altri un valido strumento scientifico. Carla Castelli Universitá degli Studi di Milano Anónimo Segueriano, Arte del discorso político, edizione cri­ tica, traduzione e commento a cura di Dionigi Vottero, Alessandria: delPOrso editore 2004, vi + 572pp. ISBN 8876947507 Questa edizione dell'tfrs rhetorica dell'Anonimo Segueriano segue a breve distanza di tempo quella di Dilts-Kennedy (cfr. M. R. Dilts-G. A. Kennedy, Two Rhetorical Treatises from the Roman Empire: Introduction, text and translation of the Arts of Rhetoric attributed to Anoni/mus Seguerianus and to Apsines ofGadara, Leiden-New York-Kôln 1998). Dionigi V., ricercatore di filología classica presso l'Université di Torino, ha dedicato lunghi anni alio studio di questo trattato e del suo anonimo autore, ma non ha potuto dare le ultime cure al volume perché è scomparso prematuramente. Della revisione finale dell'opera si sono occupati Lucio Bertelli e Gian Franco Gianotti (pp. V-VI). Non deve sorprenderé che nel breve volgere di pochi anni siano apparse due nuove edizioni dell'ars rhetorica dell'AS soprattutto perché nello stesso periodo si è ridestato un notevole e crescente interesse per la manualistica retorica tardo-imperiale, non piú considerata come una sterile stilistica destínala a ripetere gli schemi e le dottrine di été classica. Per giunta, il trat­ tato dell'AS si segnala per l'ampiezza dei suoi contenuti: presenta, infatti, un corso di retorica completo, organizzato secondo le parti del discorso, ed inoltre costituisce fonte indiretta utile a ricostruire il testo di alcuni manuali di grande rilievo nella tradizione retorica, purtroppo andati perduti. II manuale dell'AS si presenta, infatti, come un'esposizione della precettistica relativa alie parti del discorso, realizzata in base alia tradizione tecnografica prece­ dente; si fonda in particolare sui testi di Alessandro di Numenio, Neocle ed Arpocrazione, dei quali vengono riportate definizioni e dottrine. Rispetto alia scarna edizione di Dilts-Kennedy, quella di V. è senza dubbio piú completa e innovativa in termini di cura filológica e commento del testo. Davvero ponderosa è l'introduzione nella quale V. affronta i problemi piú spinosi relativi al testo: identité dell'autore, data di pubblicazione del trattato, struttura e finalité del medesimo. V. prende posizione in mérito a tutte le tematiche discusse, conducendo un'indagine molto rigorosa, suffragata da un notevole apparato di fonti che talora risultano essere troppo estese, appesantendo piuttosto che facilitando il loro utilizzo. Cosí Patillon, Anonyme de Séguier, Art rhétorique, texte établi et traduit par AL Patillon Reviews 227 (Paris. Les Belles Lettres, 2005), XCIX: «c est un travail solide et très (trop?) documenté au quel on se reportera utilement» . Si puô trovare un sunto delle principali argomentazioni proposte dallo studioso nella lecensione all edizione di V. a cura di R. Romano («Una nuova edizione critica dell'Anonimo Segueriano» , Vichiana 8 (2006): 144-50). Si rimanda ad essa per avéré un'utile scheda di lettura del volume. In questa sede, invece, si intende affrontare alcuni problemi fondamentali concernenti il testo dell'AS che meritano un ulteriore approfondimento in seguito alla pubblicazione da parte di Patillon di una nuovissima edizione critica del trattato, i cui risultati contrastano moite volte con gli esiti delLindagine di V. Appare dunque opportuno riesaminare alcuni punti dell'argomentazione di V. alla luce delle analoghe considerazioni proposte da Patillon. Titolo. La prima questione ad essere oggetto di controversia è il titolo del trattato dell'AS. La tradizione manoscritta reca il titolo τέχνη τού πολι­ τικού /.όγου ήτοι 0ικ7.νικού. V. ritiene doveroso espungere il riferimento al discorso giudiziario perché costituisce verosímilmente una glossa aggiunta al testo dal copista per specificare che i precetti del manuale non si limitano al solo discorso politico, ma interessano anche il genere giudiziario. Attraverso un'analisi rigorosa della tradizione retorica coeva all'AS, lo studioso con­ clude a ragione che l'espressione πολιτικός λόγος era di per sé sufficiente ad indicare il discorso oratorio in generale, ben al di là del semplice riferimento al genere deliberativo. Del resto, i manuali di Apsine, Ps. Aristide e una sezione del de ideis di Ermogene recano...

This article offers a thorough analysis of the issue of conjecture (στοχασμός) as described in Hermogenes of Tarsus’ <i>On Issues</i>. The rhetorician’s theory is completed with the explanations from its most important exegeses: Syrianus, Sopater <i>(Rhetores Graeci</i> 5 Walz), Sopater-Syrianus-Marcellinus <i>(Rhetores Graeci</i> 4 Walz), fundamentally, and the Anonymous Commentary <i>(Rhetores Graeci</i> 7 Walz). Scholia are essential because they help us to understand the Hermogenic text, pointing out its strengths and weaknesses. They also contribute to tracing the whole of the rhetorical tradition previous to, contemporary with, and after Hermogenes.

236 RHETORICA Ceri Sullivan. The Rhetoric of the Conscience in Donne, Herbert, and Vaughan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. xiv + 275pp. ISBN 019954784X On her Web page at the University of Bangor, where she is Reader in English, Ceri Sullivan says about her publications, 'Language most shows a man: speak that I may see thee/ Jonson's confi­ dence in his ability to read through the rhetoric is a constant challenge to me in research, and my three monographs have browsed, sheeplike, over this terrain. The first [1995] dealt with whether one may persuade oneself in devotion, focusing on Catholic texts (Dismembered Rhetoric: En­ glish Recusant Writing 1580-1603). The second [2002] mused over how a merchant represents himself and reads others' representations in the real and dramatic markets (The Rhetoric ofCredit: Merchants in Early Mod­ ern Writing). A third asks whether, if the conscience is structured as a language, the consequence of the divine I AM is YOU AREN'T ... The answer to the question posed in the most recent book is this: not necessarily—or even, on the contrary. An effort to reconcile one­ self with God may lead to tears and stylistic excess. But as Sullivan shows, it also may lead to an increased awareness of the human, the other-than-divine, parts of the self. Because actions of the self in prob­ ing its inferiority employed the devices and strategies of language, rhetorical analyses of resulting documents—poetry especially—are deeply revealing about the nature of that self. In dealing with the role of the conscience in Seventeenth Century writing, Sullivan has included in her purview analysis as well as genesis, the actions of interpreting discourse as well as responding to it. In choosing as her chief examples members of what used to be called "the school of Donne," she has picked three for whom the actions of the self in attending to what the poets thought might very well be the voice of God are both problematic and significant. Of these three, Donne has the most complicated relation to the nature of the self, to his own ego—or at least it's fashionable to think so these days when we have several studies adverting to Donne's fear of death as mainly a fear of losing his individuality, his very selfhood among the faceless and innumerable dead. The conscience, so the Seventeenth Century believed, is an innate moral sense planted in our inferiority by God. Because that sense was usually thought of as a voice, the conscience was accordingly structured as a language, and rhetoric figures in it of necessity. Literally so, as Sullivan shows. Rhetoric is present in such devices and strategies as syllogism, snbjectio, enigma, antanaclasis, aposiopesis, 237 Reviews chiasmus, to cite only those named in her chapter heads. These devices and strategies show up in discourse when one confronts, negotiates with, or advises others about that invariably troublesome inner voice. Donne debated with that voice in his poems and as priest overtly addressed the conscience of his parishioners. "Peace pratler, do not lowre" begins Herbert's poem Conscience. Vaughan found his own conscience "darting" and "full of stabs and fears" (The Relapse). "Donne, Herbert, and Vaughan," writes Sullivan, "spend much time peering curiously at their consciences, wondering who it is who is confessing to guilt" (p. 17). But these confrontations with the conscience are not re-examined simply as literary features, certainly not as psychological or moral cu­ riosities. One leaves Sullivan's book having learned as much about rhetoric and intellectual history as about the poetry of this period— perhaps even more about the former than the latter. Protestantism with its emphases on virtually unaided approaches to God and on in­ dividual responsibility toward divine law set the tone for a period in which—for the first time, Sullivan insists—judicial rhetoric was em­ ployed to deal with the conscience, a rhetoric the poems often show breaking down. As indicated, each chapter centers on a particular de­ vice or strategy, in something of the following progression, to skim briefly over the chapters. Stuart manuals described the conscience in legalistic terms; casuists invariably formed their discussions as syllo­ gisms. Torturing the...

238 RHETORICA readings of a wide range of poems" but what she offers are read­ ings of details in passages, best grasped if the reader has nearby a copy of the poems from which the passages are drawn; and her "wide range" actually encompasses a scope of poetry and prose well beyond the writers named in her somewhat misleading title, per­ haps disappointing those readers expecting more concentration on the three poets while gratifying other readers seeking context. Finally, she slights the enthymeme, breezily conflating its characteristics with those of the syllogism; and it's improperly indexed, too. But these are minor matters, and they wither in the face of the importance of this book, the point of this review. If Sullivan's "ter­ rain" is vast, her browsing is neither aimless nor "sheeplike." Quite the reverse, she offers innovative, sustained, and illuminating rhetor­ ical analyses centering on a vital subject in our intellectual history: the conscience, once structured as a language and once considered dialogic in nature. Her effort "to read through the rhetoric" as well as her ability to share that knowledge with others teaches us much about our history and about our rhetoric, too. Thomas O. Sloane University of California, Berkeley Wendy Olmsted, Rhetoric: An Historical Introduction, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2006,157pp. ISBN 1405117737; Denis Donoghue, On Eloquence, New Haven, London: Yale University Press, 2008, 197pp. ISBN 0300125410 Wendy Olmsted's Rhetoric: An Historical Introduction is a welcome addi­ tion to this field of study. As the introduction explains, her book is distinctive because it understands that rhetoric is "a practical art of deliberation" that is best "taught and learned through historically specific examples of argument and interpretation" (p. 1). She explores how the art of deliberation changes across time, from Aristotle to Jane Austen, from Roman oratory to contem­ porary legal training in the U.S. This is a wide-ranging book. It offers case studies of thinkers and writers who represent the changing fortunes of this art, including Aristotle, Cicero, Augustine, Machiavelli, Francis Bacon, John Milton, and Jane Austen. In its exploration of more recent work, the book's emphasis is on expositors of the rhetorical tradition in the U.S., including Wayne C. Booth, Stephen Greenblatt, Eugene Garver, Danielle S. Allen, and Edward H. Levi. The focus of this study develops from Olmsted's longstanding interest in inventio. She begins by exploring how Cicero adapts Aristotle's rhetorical Reviews 239 categories, ethos, pathos and logos, to give greater prominence to sympathy, and she considers how Augustine uses techniques of rhetorical invention to serve the ends of biblical interpretation. All later writers are judged in the light of this early history: thus, Jane Austen's "skill" in defining the values that shape Anne Elliot s world in Persuasion, and which prevent her from being heard, are "understood in terms of the classical (Aristotelian and Ciceronian) emphasis on common beliefs as the premises for rhetorical arguments" (p. 98). In addition, Olmsted understands that works concerned with the theory of rhetoric are also "works of rhetoric" (p. 1). This is one of the strengths of this book, as well as one of its innovations: Olmsted offers genuinely insightful and thought-provoking readings of the different ways in which Cicero, Machiavelli, and Bacon "use rhetorical topics to teach their readers how to deliberate about particular ethical and political dilemmas" (p. 48) and to challenge the wav they think. Thus, Olmsted not only attends to Cicero's rhetorical writings, De inventione and De oratore, hut also explores the rhetoric of his philosophical work, namely De offieiis, and in so doing she breaks down easy assumptions about Cicero's idealism, and Machiavelli's opportunism. Two of the most important topoi that Cicero explores, for example, are the "honourable" and the "expedient." Much of De offieiis is concerned with the relationship be­ tween them. But his understanding of these terms, and their relationship to each other, varies as a result of the examples he offers. He offers no easy definitions, but rather requires the reader to deliberate, to work out how to behave honourablv and expediently in different situations. Machiavelli shares this strategv of exploring, developing and challenging commonplace thinking with...

Reviews E Gasti-E. Romano, eds., Retorica ed educazione delle élites nell antica Roma. Atti della VI Giornata ghisleriana di Filología Classica (Pavia, 4-5 aprile 2006), Pavia: Ibis, 2008, 280pp. ISBN 8871642562 Il volume raccoglie i testi dei nove interventi tenutisi a Pavia il 4 e 5 aprile 2006, in occasione della VI Giornata ghisleriana di Filología Classica, dedicata all'interazione tra formazione retorica e cultura política nella Roma antica. Il tema si colloca in ideale continuitá, come nota Fabio Gasti (curatore del volume insieme a Elisa Romano), con la prima, dedicata alie teorie gram­ matical!, a conferma della vitalitá e dell'eccellente livello di una iniziativa che data al 2001 e nasce dalla collaborazione tra il Collegio Ghislieri e il Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Antichitá dell'Universita di Pavia. I contributi si dispiegano su un ampio arco cronológico che muove da Cicerone per arrivare sino al Medioevo. Essi sono preceduti da un intervento "quadro" di Luigi Spina dedicato alia retorica della lettura nell'insegnamento della retorica: Perché leggere i classici (e senza pinito interrogativo): La retorica della lettura degli autori greci e latini nell'insegnamento della retorica. Oggetto della riflessione non é la natura degli autori da leggere, né la modalitá della loro selezione; Spina, piuttosto, si concentra sulle motivazioni che inducono alia lettura e sulla loro tópica, esaminando l'articolazione del ragionamento nelle fonti greche e latine che ne parlano piü diffusamente: PEpistola 84 di Seneca, Finizio del libro X delF Institutio quintilianea (X 1-2), passi delle epitomi del perduto De imitatione di Dionisio d'Alicarnasso e, infine, F Orazione XVIII di Dione. Attraverso le immagini elaborate dai singoli autori (ad esempio Foratore come atleta o la lettura come flusso oppure come meccanismo di cottura e digestione), e, soprattutto, grazie al notissimo testo di Quintiliano, Spina dimostra che Felaborazione del canone degli autori proposti nelle scuole di retorica e la proposta di un circuito lettura-scrittura valorizzato dalla pratica deWimitatio rispondono certamente a istanze didattiche, ma rappresentano anche un'esigenza auténticamente cultúrale (p. 20). Francesco Caparrotta affronta il De inventione ciceroniano e la vexata quaestio dei suoi due proemi, collocando lo scritto nel contesto delFepoca in cui operó il giovane Cicerone e dei suoi immediati precedenti culturali (II giovane Cicerone tra oratoria e retorica. Per un inquadramento cultúrale del De inventione). Si tratta, apparentemente, di un cortocircuito: il de inventione Rhetorica, Vol. XXVIII, Issue 2, pp. 222—243, ISSN 0734-8584, electronic ISSN 15338541 . ©2010 by The International Society for the History of Rhetoric. All rights re­ served. Please direct all requests for permission to photocopy or reproduce article content through the University of California Press's Rights and Permissions website at http://www.ucpressjournals.com/reprintlnfo.asp. DOI: 10.1525/RH.2010.28.2.222. Reviews 223 stesso, insieme alia Rhctoi im ad Hercunium, è una delle poche testimonianze dirette della retorica ellenistica, come pure della ricezione e del riuso della sua parte greca. L'autore si impegna allora nella analítica ricostruzione del contesto, e, in particolare, in quella delle pratiche oratorie, didattiche e di ascolto del discorso fórmale già esistenti a Roma, diverse da quelle greche, mostrando come la diffusione e la sistematizzazione della retorica greca si innestino su di esse. L ascolto di oratori, poeti e filosofi greci nelle case dei notabili romani, la lettura di Isocrate e Demostene, il confronto con il sistema educativo romano cosí profundamente diverso da quello greco costituiscono il terreno in cui é cresciuto il progetto del giovane Cicerone, tutto teso, nel primo proemio, a collocare il proprio scritto nel contesto delle attivitá utili alia crvitas e alia res publica e, nel secundo proemio, a enucleare i criteri adottati nella selezione dei modelli. L'analisi di Elvira Migliario (Cultura política c scuole di retorica a Roma in ctii auyustea) sposta l'attenzione verso il primo impero, e la riporta con­ temporáneamente sul pubblico delle domas prívate, oltre che sulle scuole di retorica. In queste due sedi, le audizioni per un pubblico scelto avrebbero permesso la discussione di argomenti ormai impensabili nel dibattito pubblico dell'epoca. L'autrice dimostra infatti che gli esercizi retorici della prima età impériale...

In seventeenth-century France, the one context in which it was possible to publicly criticize the monarch was the pulpit. Yet, in delivering criticism, the court preacher had to avoid sounding too harsh not only for fear of giving offense but for fear the sovereign might cease listening altogether. This paper examines the rhetorical techniques by which the preacher could indirectly—and hence “safely”—criticize the king. As we see from Bossuet’s “Sermon sur la predication évangélique” (1662), far from being a simple means of cajoling, these techniques attempted to provide the preacher with the most effective means for delivering bold criticism.

Book Review| February 01 2010 Review: Haydn and the Performance of Rhetoric, by Tom Beghin and Sander M. Goldberg Tom Beghinund Sander M. Goldberg(Hg.), Haydn and the Performance of Rhetoric, Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 2007. XX, 366 S. samt DVD mit Musik- und Notenbeispielen sowie Abbildungen. ISBN 0-226-04129-8. Rhetorica (2010) 28 (1): 100–104. https://doi.org/10.1525/RH.2010.28.1.100 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Review: Haydn and the Performance of Rhetoric, by Tom Beghin and Sander M. Goldberg. Rhetorica 1 February 2010; 28 (1): 100–104. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/RH.2010.28.1.100 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentRhetorica Search This content is only available via PDF. © 2010 by The International Society for the History of Rhetoric. All rights reserved.2010 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| February 01 2010 Review: Altre Retoriche. Da Baltasar Gracián a Quentin Tarantino, by Ruggero Morresi Ruggero Morresi(ed.), Altre Retoriche. Da Baltasar Gracián a Quentin Tarantino, Roma: Il Calamo, 2005. 285 pp. ISBN 88–89837–01–2. Rhetorica (2010) 28 (1): 104–108. https://doi.org/10.1525/RH.2010.28.1.104 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Review: Altre Retoriche. Da Baltasar Gracián a Quentin Tarantino, by Ruggero Morresi. Rhetorica 1 February 2010; 28 (1): 104–108. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/RH.2010.28.1.104 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentRhetorica Search This content is only available via PDF. © 2010 by The International Society for the History of Rhetoric. All rights reserved.2010 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| February 01 2010 Review: Lo spettacolo della giustizia. Le orazioni di Cicerone, by Gianna Petrone e Alfredo Casamento Gianna Petrone e Alfredo Casamento(ed.), Lo spettacolo della giustizia. Le orazioni di Cicerone. «Leuconoe»—L'invenzione dei classici 10. Palermo: Flaccovio, 2007, 274 pp. ISBN 8878044156. Rhetorica (2010) 28 (1): 96–100. https://doi.org/10.1525/RH.2010.28.1.96 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Review: Lo spettacolo della giustizia. Le orazioni di Cicerone, by Gianna Petrone e Alfredo Casamento. Rhetorica 1 February 2010; 28 (1): 96–100. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/RH.2010.28.1.96 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentRhetorica Search © 2010 by The International Society for the History of Rhetoric. All rights reserved.2010 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| February 01 2010 Review: Figuratively Speaking: Rhetoric and Culture from Quintilian to the Twin Towers, by Sarah Spence Sarah SpenceFiguratively Speaking: Rhetoric and Culture from Quintilian to the Twin Towers (London: Duckworth, 2007). 144 pp. ISBN 978–0–7156–3513–1. Rhetorica (2010) 28 (1): 108–110. https://doi.org/10.1525/RH.2010.28.1.108 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Review: Figuratively Speaking: Rhetoric and Culture from Quintilian to the Twin Towers, by Sarah Spence. Rhetorica 1 February 2010; 28 (1): 108–110. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/RH.2010.28.1.108 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentRhetorica Search This content is only available via PDF. © 2010 by The International Society for the History of Rhetoric. All rights reserved.2010 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| February 01 2010 Review: Bildrhetorik, by Joachim Knape, Medienrhetorik, by Joachim Knape, Bild-Rhetorik, by Wolfgang Brassat Joachim Knape(Hg.), Bildrhetorik (Saecula Spiritalia 45), Baden-Baden: Valentin Koerner, 2007. 496 S., Abb., Diagramme. ISBN 3–87320–445–2Joachim Knape(Hg.), Medienrhetorik, Tübingen: Attempto, 2005. 262 S., Abb. ISBN 3–89308–370–7Wolfgang Brassat(Hg.), Bild-Rhetorik (Rhetorik. Ein internationales Jahrbuch 24), Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 2005. XI, 168 S. ISBN 3–484–60475–1. Rhetorica (2010) 28 (1): 110–116. https://doi.org/10.1525/RH.2010.28.1.110 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Review: Bildrhetorik, by Joachim Knape, Medienrhetorik, by Joachim Knape, Bild-Rhetorik, by Wolfgang Brassat. Rhetorica 1 February 2010; 28 (1): 110–116. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/RH.2010.28.1.110 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentRhetorica Search This content is only available via PDF. © 2010 by The International Society for the History of Rhetoric. All rights reserved.2010 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Other| February 01 2010 Addresses of Contributors to this Issue Rhetorica (2010) 28 (1): 117–118. https://doi.org/10.1525/RH.2010.28.1.117 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Addresses of Contributors to this Issue. Rhetorica 1 February 2010; 28 (1): 117–118. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/RH.2010.28.1.117 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentRhetorica Search This content is only available via PDF. © 2010 by The International Society for the History of Rhetoric. All rights reserved.2010 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

110 RHETORICA Peacham mentions the figure of amplification under "Order," a figure of sentence, and as a category in its own right under "Amplification," that minor difference does not explain changes in uses of amplification over time. References to theories of language can also at times confuse when they are meant to explain. These references complicate a reader's efforts to follow the argument by introducing theoretical distinctions and explanations at odds with the material and with treatises on rhetoric. For example, recourse in a brief space to such varied theories as those of Baudrillard, Nietzsche, Eric Cheyfitz, Plato, Freud, and Umberto Eco threaten to disrupt the line of argument. The definition of figurative speech as "using language to do more than name" (p. 10) also casts a very wide net. A sharper focus on the main subject of the argument would have produced a clearer explanation for its claims. But Spence's book has much to say and show about how figurative and poetic language discover possibilities that enable, though they can also injure, the "potential" of a culture (p. 10). She gives a telling account of how language use and reuse discloses the changing priorities of a culture, and she makes a strong case for the adaptability of rhetoric to its particular circumstances. Wendy Olmsted The University of Chicago Joachim Knape (Hg.), Bildrhetorik (Saecula Spiritalia 45), BadenBaden : Valentin Koerner, 2007. 496 S., Abb., Diagramme. ISBN 387320 -445-2; Joachim Knape (Hg.), Medienrhetorik, Tübingen: At­ tempt, 2005. 262 S., Abb. ISBN 3-89308-370-7; Wolfgang Bras­ sât (Hg.), Bild-Rhetorik (Rhetorik. Ein internationales Jahrbuch 24), Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 2005. XI, 168 S. ISBN 3-484-60475-1. Wenn hier der gewichtige Band Bildrhetorik, erschienen 2007, an den Anfang einer Rezension gestellt wird und nicht der ordo naturalis der Erscheinungschronologie eingehalten wird, so ist dafür ein Grund anzugeben: Der zuerst zu besprechende Band geht auf eine bereits im Jahr 2002 veranstaltete Tagung zurück. Er enthàlt eine Einleitung des Herausgebers (S. 9-34), die nicht nur als "starke" Lektüre des eingeleiteten Bandes dienen kann, sondern das Thema "Bildrhetorik/Medienrhetorik" insgesamt luzide exponiert. Ihre Grundlinien geben eine definitorische Abgrenzung des vom gleichen Herausgeber betreuten Bandes Medienrhetorik, aber auch—implizit—des hier mit angezeigten Themenhefts der Zeitschrift Rhetorik ab. Gleichwohl aber, und dies muss der Rez. zur Rechtfertigung auch des eigenen Geschafts festhalten , kann sich eine Rezension nicht auf diese Einleitung beschrànken. Zu referieren ist selbstverstàndlich auch das reiche Angebot an einschlàgigen Beitràgen in den angezeigten Bânden. Sie reflektieren eine über 2000-iahrDe Reviews 111 Tradition des Bildproblems im Kontext einer Theorie der "Rede." Es hat im Medienumbruch von den "audiovisuellen" zu den "digitalen" Medien, zu einer neuen Hypermedialitat" einen besonderen Stellenwert gewonnen. 1st Rede Handeln mit Worten, so ist das "Bild" in der Rede stets ein Problem dieses Mediums gewesen: Soli der Rhetor "demonstrieren," "Bilder zeigen," oder soil er sie nicht vielmehr, um der besonderen Wirksamkeit seiner Worte willen, in der Vorstellung seines Horers entstehen lassen? "Bilder" im rhetorischen Sinn sind "virtuell." Sie sind, als "Figuren," als "Evidenzen," als Hypotyposen ' die wirksamsten Mittel rhetorischer Kunst, deren sich auch die "graphischen" Medien als Transformationen der Rhetorik und des Thea­ ters umfassend bedient haben. Das Buch, der Kinematograph und auch die "Neuen Medien" haben sie ebenso genutzt wie die Bildkiinste selber, auch die Tafelmalerei und die Plastik, auch die moderne Medienkunst mit ihren gesetzten Themen und "Erzahlungen," ihren "Titeln." Verstandlich, dass die grofie Geschichte des Bildes in den Medien seit der Antike in den hier vorzustellenden Bànden immer wieder in Variationen und in unterschiedlicher begrifflicher Fassung angesprochen wird. Hier wird die rhetorische Theorie zur kulturellen Praxis. Ergànzend kann hier auch auf den soeben erschienenen Band Rhetorik als kulturelle Praxis, herausgegeben von Renate Lachmann, Riccardo Nicolosi und Susanne Stratiing, erschienen in der Reihe "Figuren" (2008), verwiesen werden. Der Titel dieser Reihe zielte ohnehin auf das Grundkonzept rhetorischer Bildlichkeit. Dieser "Bildrhetorik" und ihrer unscharfen Begrifflichkeit, die allenfalls an Topiken gemahnt, wendet sich Joachim Knape in seiner Einleitung kritisch zu. Zu Recht betont er: Eine "wissenschaftliche Bildrhetorik" stehe letzilich "vom Ansatz her quer zu Bildwissenschaft" (qua Erforschung eines semiotischen Phanomens unter anderen...

108 RHETORICA per una struttura non lineare, col ricorso sia a vere e proprie digressioni—ma decisive nella struttura complessiva del racconto—, sia alflash-forward, «che rappresenta le storie ancora non accadute rispetto all'esordio stesso» (p. 275). Infine, Yelocutio fa individuare le numeróse figure utilizzate da Tarantino, per il quale «i moment! verbali hanno la precedenza su quelli d'azione» (p. 244), mentre Yactio (Yautoritá dell'oratore), viene invocata per mostrare un'altra caratteristica típica del cinema di Tarantino, «la tendenza a riservarsi dei ruoli che considera imprescindibilmente interpretabili solo da se stesso» (p. 281). I saggi contenuti nel volume riescono—anche grazie alia loro alterita— a mostrare la vitalitá della retorica perfino in ambiti, come il cinema, cosi distanti dalla sua vocazione originaria. Perché, come osserva il curatore: «né le sue esclusioni né le sue redenzioni hanno impedito la pratica sui generis del pensiero-linguaggio retorico; il che, forse, é segno dell'imprescindibile attitudine umana alia persuasione, presentata o accolta come il momento del ragionevole, costituito dalla mescolanza di passione e intelligenza, che pre­ cede l'azione conseguente alie scelte volontarie dell'uomo stesso, compresa quella della ragione scientifica» (p. 7). Francesca Piazza Universitd di Palermo Sarah Spence, Figuratively Speaking: Rhetoric and Culture from Quin­ tilian to the Twin Towers (London: Duckworth, 2007). 144 pp. ISBN 978-0-7156-3513-1 Sarah Spence's most recent book, Figuratively Speaking, claims that figu­ rative language constitutes the chief way in which language discovers possi­ bilities for ethical action in "western culture" (p. 10). Although the book does not quite fulfill the ambitious goal of proving this claim, it illuminates the dis­ tinctive power in certain figures that make changes in emphasis and cultural meaning observable. The book argues that repetition, for example, has mi­ grated in modern times from "superficial ornamentation to deep structural principle ... It has progressed from a figure of speech to a figure of thought" (p. 19). Though sheer repetition can be deadening or coercive (Spence cites the Fox network on p. 35), repetition with a difference can change the angle at which to interpret an event. The fall of the Twin Towers dramatizes this point. Only after a plane hit the second tower did observers interpret the first crash as an attack. The strike on the first tower was difficult to categorize; the second validated an interpretation. This shift, along with the ironv of injunctions not to "look back" after the attack, initiates the study's inquiry. The book claims that the most salient figures for its study require one to "look back" (p. 33) from Quintilian's empire to Cicero's Republic, from the late Middle Ages' use of material figures to Augustine's privileging of the non-material, and to look forward from amplification in the late medieval Reviews 109 and eaily modem periods to chiasmus in Milton s and Montaigne's writings. Montaigne, foi example, iediiects attention from page to its marginal glosses and from book to writer, creating a shifting interplay between self and book. He asserts, "Everyone recognizes me in my hook, and my book in me" (quoted p. 119). Spence's argument focuses on figures that make change evident: "hesitation and correction" in ancient Rome, "dwelling on a point" in the medieval period, "chiasm in early modern writing," and repetition in modern television, hooks, and film (p. 16). Figuratively Speaking argues through many examples that figures move thought, undercutting anv strong distinction between figures of thought and figures of speech. She observes that for Quintilian figures of speech are closely related to figures of thought. Quintilian writes, "the same things are often put in different wavs and the sense remains unaltered though the words are changed, while a figure of thought mav include several figures of speech. For the former lies in the conception, the latter in the expression of our thought. The two are frequently combined, however ... It is ... generally agreed by the majority7 of authors that there are two classes of figure, namely figures ofthought, that is of the mind, feeling or conceptions, since all these terms are used, and figures of speech, that is of words, diction, expression, language or style" (Institutio Oratorio 9.1...

Reviews Gianna Petrone e Alfredo Casamento (ed.), Lo spettacolo della giustizia. Le orazioni di Cicerone. «Leuconoe»—L'invenzione dei classici 10. Palermo: Flaccovio, 2007, 274 pp. ISBN 8878044156 Il volume contiene gli atti del convegno palermitano (marzo 2006), dedicato al corpus di testi "fra i piú compatti tra quelli che la letteratura latina abbia prodotto" che presenta aspetti della retorica fortemente legati al "tasso di spettacolarità." Le prime considerazioni sul legame stretto tra azione teatrale e oratoria, nonché fra teatralità e ethos, si devono ad A. Cavarzere, Introduzione (pp. 7-12), che osserva tra l'altro come "è proprio in Cicerone che la spettacolarità e la teatralità dell'oratoria trovano finalmente il loro difficile equilibrio con la conservazione del decorum" (p. 7). Apre il volume il contributo di L. Pernot, I paradossi della teatralità retorica in Cicerone (pp. 13-28), che affronta il tema del rapporto tra retorica e teatro attraverso l'analisi di tre brani del de oratore nei quali, anche se il riferimento al teatro non è esplicito, pure lo "sfondo" legato al teatro è fácilmente individuabile , grazie anche al confronto con altri testi. II primo brano, de orat. 3.213, è incentrato sull'aneddoto di Demostene che, a chi gli chiedeva quale fosse Lelemento principale dell'oratoria, rispondeva ponendo al primo, al secondo e al terzo posto Yactio; leggendo il testo accanto ad analoghe testimonianze dello Pseudo-Plutarco e di Quintiliano, si evince—in modo ancora piú esplicito di quanto non avvenisse in Cicerone—il legame con gli attori di teatro. II secondo passo esaminato, de orat. 2.124, è relativ o alie parole di Crasso che ncorda il famoso episodio in cui Antonio, difendendo Manió Aquilio, ne strappô la tunica per mostrare ai giudici le cicatrici del suo petto al fine di suscítame pietà e simpatía. Anche in questo caso, la lettura in parallelo di Quint. 2.15.7-9, che racconta un análogo aneddoto a proposito di Iperide e della cortigiana Frine, cui venne denudato il bellissimo corpo, veicola il messaggio che "lo spettacolo giunge in aiuto al discorso," e che anzi lo spettacolo stesso si sostituisce al discorso. Dal terzo brano, infine, de orat. 3.195, emerge l'importanza attribuita dall'oratore al giudizio della folla: esso significa, infatti, giudizio della maggioranza. L'importanza data da Ci­ cerone alla dimensione "spettacolare" è, dunque, molto piú forte di quanto possa apparire ad una prima analisi, probabilmente perché la sua stessa pratica della retorica gli aveva permesso di constatare la potenza dell'elemento spettacolare e teatrale. Rhetorica, Vol. XXVIII, Issue 1, pp. 96-118, ISSN 0734-8584, electronic ISSN 15338541 . ©2010 by The International Society for the History of Rhetoric. All rights reserved . Please direct all requests for permission to photocopy or reproduce article content through the University of California Press's Rights and Permissions website at http://www.ucpressjournals.com/reprintlnfo.asp. DO1: 10.1525/RH.2010.28.1 Reviews 97 Ed è su uno degli elementi presi in esame da Pernot, Vevidentia, che si incentra il contributo di M.S. Celentano, L'evidenza esemplare di Cicerone oratore (pp. 33-48): PA. mira a sottolineare la grande capacité che ebbe Ci­ cerone di riuscire a narrare fatti ed eventi, rendendone partecipi gli ascoltatori /lettori. In particolare, puesta capacita è analizzata dalEA. attraverso le testimonianze e le citazioni di Quintiliano, il che consente anche la valutazione della ricezione di tale abilita retorica a partiré dagli autori di I see. fino a quelli piú tardi, da Aquila Romano a Marziano Capella. In conclusione , EA. sottolinea che in ámbito retorico si puo parlare di una sorta di "uso intersemiotico dell'immagine che si fa parola e della parola che attualizza , vivificándola, l'immagine" (p. 48). E. Pianezzola, Retorico verbale e retorico extraverbale: il frammento di Gaio Gracco 48, 61 Male.4 e il commento di Crasso (pp. 29-31), riflette invece sulla notazione che Cicerone fa seguiré alia citazione del frammento di Gaio Gracco, sottolineando—per bocea di Crasso—come Gracco si servisse di una gestualita tale per cui neanche i nemici avrebbero potuto trattenere le lacrime, usando un'espressione che ne ricorda una analoga delPA/Ar di Sofocle (vv. 923ss.), a testimonianza del fatto che "ancora una volta la tragedia...

This article argues that the conceptualization of the notions of character and characterization in ancient rhetorical treatises can serve as a hermeneutical tool for the analysis of characterization in narrative literature. It offers an analysis of ancient rhetorical loci and techniques of character depiction and points out that ancient rhetorical theory discusses direct, metaphorical, and metonymical techniques of characterization. Ultimately, it provides the modern scholar with a paradigm for the analysis of characterization in (ancient) narrative literature.

100 RHETORICA di Marcello, protagonista della prima delle cosiddette "orazioni cesariane." Fu in questa delicata congiuntura che ZTArpíñate si trasformô in drammaturgo e regista, assegnando a Marcello la maschera del reus, a Cesare quella del giudice cui si rivolgeva la spettacolare performance della actio e a sé, naturalmente, quella del patronus, mediatore accorto tra destinatore e destinatario: grazie alia semplice forza evocatrice della parola veniva cost ricreata con stupefacente abilità poietica la situazione 'triangolare' del processo , sulla cui scena sempre si muovono quali attori reus, index e patronus" (p. 240). A riprendere la figura paradigmática di Marcello sarà—quasi un secolo dopo—Seneca, in un celebre passo della consoiatio ad Helviani (9.4-9); ma lo fará, evidentemente, nei modi e nelle forme che la mutata situazione dei tempi, nonché la diversa condizione degli autori, suggerivano. A questo punto, il passo verso la creazione drammaturgica deH'"ultimo, disperante paradigma mítico," Tieste, era molto breve. Una sezione dedicata alia Biblio­ grafía (pp. 249-72) chiude il volume, il cui titolo evoca, in relazione alia nostra attualità, scenari e situazioni che coinvolgono la spettacolarizzazione mediatica dei processi, tanto più amplificata quanto maggiore è I'efferatezza degli eventi. Oggi—spesso—la giustizia "fa" spettacolo perché "dà" spettacolo. Ma questa, per fortuna, è tutta un'altra storia. Flaviana Ficca Universitd di Napoli Federico II Tom Beghin und Sander M. Goldberg (Hg.), Haydn and the Performance of Rhetoric, Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 2007. XX, 366 S. samt DVD mit Musik- und Notenbeispielen sowie Abbildungen. ISBN 0-226-04129-8. Es ist ein überaus lobenswertes Unterfangen, die Bedeutung der Rhetorik für die Musik sowie das Selbstverstàndnis der Komponisten als "musikalischer Redner" nicht nur an Komponisten des 17. und frühen 18. Jh. dingiest zu machen, sondern auch an Meistern der "Klassik," für die diese Tradition ebenfalls Geltung besaB. Haydns Musik, die er selbst als "durch die ganze Welt" verstândliche "Sprache" bezeichnete, ist hier das bestmogliche Anschauungsmaterial . Dies nimmt der vorliegende Sammelband zum AnlaB, nach der Darstellung der antiken Rhetorik sowie der Erzahlfunktionen von Gemalden und Dichtungen die "musikalische Rhetorik" im allgemeinen so­ wie speziell in Haydns Œuvre zu betrachten; und hervorragende analvtische Ergebnisse bringen uns Haydns "redende" Musik tatsàchlich in dieser Funktion nahe. Leider müssen zunàchst aber eine Reihe grundsatzlicher Vorbehalte angemeldet werden. "Haydn is the last major composer whose music was regularly discussed by his contemporaries in terms derived from the classical tradition of rhe­ toric" lautet der Beginn des Buchumschlag-Textes, und diese falsche (S. 4 va- Reviews 101 riiert wiederholte) Behauptung zieht sich durch die gesamte Publikation. Sie ist typisch füi eine Tatsache, die fiir die meisten Artikel des Sammelbandes gilt: fiir das weitgehende Negieren (oder Nicht-Kennen) der nicht-englischsprachigen (zum Teil sehr alten) Primar- und Sekundâr-Literatur. Abgesehen davon, daP Giuseppe Carpani 1812. kein Haydnsches Werk wirklich analysierte (S. 4), wurde seinerzeit auch W. A. Mozart immer wieder als Schopfer von musikalischen "Dialogen" oder "Unterhaltungen" (etwa Koch 1802) bezeichnet und hat etwa Friedrich August Kanne 1821 in der Wiener A1lyemeinen inusikaiiseheii Zeituny mit besonderer Riicksicht auf den osterreichischen Kaiserstaat (AMZdK 3) Analvsen der Mozartschen Klaviersonaten publiziert, die sowohl rhetorische Verlaufsprinzipien orten als auch semantische Einschreibungen mit Hilfe der Figurenlehre herausarbeiten. Ein (im Literaturverzeichnis zitierter) Artikel des Rezensenten (1988) beschàftigtsich damit ebenso wie (neben vielen weiteren Publikationen) die Beitràge über "Musik und Rhetorik" in Musik in Geschichte und Geyenwart (MGG) sowie im Historischen Wbrterbuch der Rhetorik. Und dort wird auch nachgewiesen, daP die Beethoven-Rezensionen des humanistisch und rhetorisch gebildeten E. T. A. Hoffmann trotz alien "romantischen Uberschwangs" deutlich auf dem Wissen um die musikalische Rhetorik und um die Figurenlehre basieren : Sie weisen keineswegs “anti-rhetorical stance" (Bonds, "Rhetoric versus Truth: Listening to Havdn in the Age of Beethoven," S. 109-28, hier S. 121) auf, woran das teilweise "unrhetorische" Rezeptions-Verhalten des 19. Jh. nichts andert. Und neben Hoffmann haben unzahlige Autoren des fruhen 19. Jh. auf Beethovens musikalische Rhetorik verwiesen, insbesondereauf die "Rufe," "Reden" oder "Gesprache" in seinen Werken: Franz Wegeler, Ama­ deus Wendt, F. A. Kanne oder Anton Schindler ebenso wie Ferdinand Ries, Franz Liszt oder Carl Czerny (u. a. in seiner Ubersetzung...

John Nicholson's The Preceptor is the first book dedicated to an explicitly Mormon rhetorical theory, which he attempts to employ in the troubled landscape of LDS missionary training. This essay examines Nicholson's advice to missionaries, and argues that The Preceptor links logos and the Holy Spirit together in homiletic division of labor, connecting traditional Christian preaching with indigenous Mormon style and theology. By studying The Preceptor we can gain an appreciation for how rhetorical theories develop specific features that reflect a particular culture's location in history and society, and examine a rhetoric that served as an alternative to mainstream American religious and secular rhetorical development.

Reviews Serena Zweimüller, Lukian, “Rhetorum praeceptor": Einleitung, Text und Kommentar (- Hypomnemata, 176). Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2008. 499 pp. ISBN 3-525-25284-6. Numerous publications on the history of rhetoric deal with their subject either in its totality or in certain cultural periods such as classical Antiquity or the Renaissance. By contrast the history of antirhetoric remains a yet unwrit­ ten desideratum. In spite of its title Samuel Ijsseling's monograph Rhetoric and Philosophy in Conflict (1976) provides only sporadic glimpses of this his­ tory which begins with Plato and the Sophists, reaches as far as Immanuel Kant's Critique of Judgment, and extends well into the twentieth century. It always, however, emerges in the context of philosophy, especially idealis­ tic philosophy, and later in the context of German Geistesgeschichte. These contexts have so far been the focus of existing studies of antirhetoric. Com­ pared with antirhetorical philosophers, Lucian of Samosata (b. ca. 120 AD), prominent representative of the so-called Second Sophistic Age, has been ne­ glected as a member in the chain of antirhetoricians. First "a pleader (Suidas) and later a travelling lecturer who practised the art of Sophistic rhetoric as far as afield as Gaul" (Oxford Classical Dictionary), Lucian, notorious as an eiron from other works, also displayed enough self-irony as to satirize the new Sophistic fashion in oratory. He engages in this (Menippean) satire in a piece entitled ΡΗΤΟΡΩΝ ΔΙΔΑΣΚΑΛΟΣ (in Latin: Rhetorum praeceptor; in English literally Teacher of Rhetoricians), which is rendered in English by A. M. Harmon in the fourth volume of his Loeb edition of Lucian's works (pp. 133-71) as Λ Professor of Public Speaking. Because no further edition with translation appeared after the one by Harmon, there was an editorial lacuna as well as one of scholarly criticism. Both lacunae have now been filled by the book of Serena Zweimuller, which originated as a 2007 Swiss doctoral dissertation at the University of Zurich. The content of the voluminous work is divided into six parts: 1. an introduction to the rhetorical and literary fashioning of the treatise together with an examination of its philosophical and comical elements on the basis of subtexts and analogous texts; 2. a short summary and structural-rhetorical analysis of Rhetorum praeceptor; 3. an outline of the level of education and the culture of oratorical performance in the age of the Second Sophistic; 4. on Rhetorica, Vol. XXVII, Issue 4, pp. 446-456, ISSN 0734-8584, electronic ISSN 15338541 . ©2009 by The International Society for the History of Rhetoric. All rights re­ served. Please direct all requests for permission to photocopy or reproduce article content through the University of California Press's Rights and Permissions w ebsite, at http://www.ucpressjournals.com/reprintlnfo.asp. DOI: 10.1525/RH.200A27.4.44b. Reviews 447 pseudo-philosophers and ideal representatives of philosophy, together with parallels in Lucian s motifs of mockery; 5. text and translation; commentary; 6. the reception of Lucian's Rhetorum praeceptor by Willibald Pirckheimer and Desiderius Erasmus in the Renaissance. The Greek text is based on the Oxford edition of M. D. Macleod (Luciani opera. Tomus II (1974, reprinted 1993)), with a few different readings of certain textual variants that are indicated in the apparatus cnticus. As for the editor's German translation, not a single word is devoted to this topic, though the historical translation by the German classicist poet Christoph Martin Wieland (reprinted in the three-volume edition of Jurgen Werner (1981)) would have deserved one. The commentary elucidates both linguistic problems and the historical background of the text. This is often done with reference to the available research literature, as is evident, for instance, in the explanations of the important terms rhetor and sophistes on pp. 172-74. Here the point is justly emphasized that in the period of imperial rule the term sophistes by no means always carried negative connotations, though it could for the purpose of denigrating an opponent. This would, however, have been the right place to insert a digression on the Second Sophistic, since there is no introductory chapter where such a presentation would have been appropriate. Here the author could have made use of valuable studies on the history...

John Nicholson’s The Preceptor is the first book dedicated to an explicitly Mormon rhetorical theory, which he attempts to employ in the troubled landscape of LDS missionary training. This essay examines Nicholson’s advice to missionaries, and argues that The Preceptor links logos and the Holy Spirit together in homiletic division of labor, connecting traditional Christian preaching with indigenous Mormon style and theology. By studying The Preceptor we can gain an appreciation for how rhetorical theories develop specific features that reflect a particular culture’s location in history and society, and examine a rhetoric that served as an alternative to mainstream American religious and secular rhetorical development.

As a designation for specific arguments providing clever explanations or excuses in mock-forensic speeches (controversiae), the technical metaphor color is mainly known from the work of Seneca the Elder. But while the many colores he cites lack their speech context, the Major Declamations ascribed to Quintilian give a unique opportunity to study the techniques of “colouring” within the framework of entire speeches. After a reconsideration of what we know about the origin and the exact meaning of color, this article demonstrates the dual function of colores as a means both of generating arguments and of creating stories, i.e. as a device that is rhetorical as well as literary.

In this paper I present a list of the exempla used in the four surviving ancient collections of declamations (see Appendix: checklist of exempla), with a brief survey of the theory of the exemplum in rhetorical handbooks and discussion of a few samples from the Controversiae and the Declamations maiores. My observations suggest that Seneca’s criticism of the use of exempla in declamations (Contr. 7.5.12–13) is exaggerated.

Antonio Stramaglia An International Project On The Pseudo-Quintilianic Declamationes Majores I n 1999 the University of Cassino launched a research project1 on one of the most neglected fields of ancient Roman culture: the nineteen so-called Major Declamations falsely ascribed to Quintilian, the sole fictitious forensic speeches (controversiae) that classical Latin antiquity has handed down to us in their entirety.2 The aims of the project were (and still are, as the enterprise is in progress): 1) a thorough revision of the text of the Maiores; 2) a re-edition of as many speeches as possible in individual volumes containing a critically revised Latin text, a translation, and a detailed commentary; 3) a fresh investigation of these texts both from a rhetorical and from a literary-historical point of view. The project soon acquired international dimensions: whereas subventions from public institutions gradually decreased, the num1PRIN 1999: "Le Declamazioni maggiori dello Pseudo-Quintiliano," co-hnanced by the University of Cassino and by the Italian Ministry of University. Funding for the project has been subsequently applied for (with varying success) in 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007; the'project has been coordinated in its various phases either by myself or by Oronzo Pecere (Cassino). Standard edition: L. Hakanson, ed., Declamationes XIX maiores Quintiliano falso ascriptae (Stutgardiae: Teubner, 1982). For a recent survey (with bibliography) see my article cited in n. 4 below. Rhetorica, Vol. XXVII, Issue 3, pp. 237-239, ISSN 0734-8584, electronic ISSN 15338541 . ©2009 by The International Society for the History of Rhetoric. All rights re­ served. Please direct all requests for permission to photocopy or reproduce article content through the University of California Press's Rights and Permissions website, at http://www.ucpressjournals.com/reprintlnfo.asp. DOI: 10.1525/RH.2009.27.3.237. 238 RHETORICA ber of collaborators joining from all over the res publica litterarum constantly increased, so that the group now counts thirteen mem­ bers from seven different countries.3 Nine years after the launch, the results attained for each of the project's goals can be summarized as follows: 1) the textual revision of the Maiores (entailing both reconstruction of textual history and constitutio textus) has reached an advanced stage;4 5 6 7 the present writer will publish the revised text, together with a com­ plete annotated Italian translation, in the "Classici Latini UTET" (Turin) collection; 2) a special collection of commentaries has been issued by Cassino University Press (Edizioni delPUniversita degli Studi di Cassino); each volume is thoroughly revised by one or two other members of the group, before being given its imprimatur. Seven volumes have appeared so far; one more is scheduled to be despatched to the press during 2009;b others are in preparation;' 3) a considerable number of monographs and articles by members of our group have elucidated the Declamationes maiores both within the context 3Bé Breij (Nijmegen); Graziana Brescia (Foggia); Nicola HtSmke (Rostock); Gernot Krapinger (Graz); Giovanna Longo (Bari/Cassino); Lucia Pasetti (Bologna); Oronzo Pecere (Cassino); Catherine Schneider (Strasbourg); Antonio Stramaglia (Cassino); Marc van der Poel (Nijmegen); Danielle van Mal-Maeder (Lausanne); Michael Winterbottom (Oxford); Thomas Zinsmaier (Tübingen). 4See meanwhile: C. Schneider, "Quelques réflexions sur la date de publication des Grandes déclamations pseudo-quintiliennes," Latomus 59 (2000): 614-632; A. Stra­ maglia, Le Declamationes maiores pseudo-quintilianee: genesi di una raccolta declaniatoria e fisionomia della sua trastnissione testuale, in E. Amato, ed., Approches de la Troisième Sophistique. Hommages a ]. Schamp (Bruxelles: Latomus, 2006): 555-588. 5A. Stramaglia, [Quintiliano]. I gemelli malati: un caso di vivisczione (Declamazioni maggiori, 8) (Cassino: Edizioni dell'Università degli Studi di Cassino, 1999); ld., [Quintiliano]. La città che si cibà dei suoi cadaveri (Declamazioni maggiori, 22) (Cassino: Edizioni dell'Università degli Studi di Cassino, 2002); C. Schneider, [Quintilien]. Le sol­ dat de Marins (Grandes déclamations, 3) (Cassino: Edizioni dell'Università degli Studi di Cassino, 2004); G. Krapinger, [Quintilian]. Die Bienen des armeu Mannes (GrôPere Deklamationen, 13) (Cassino: Edizioni dell'Università degli Studi di Cassino, 2005); Id., [Quintilian]. Der Gladiator (Grôfiere Deklamationen, 9) (Cassino: Edizioni dell'Uni­ versità degli Studi di Cassino, 2007); G. Longo, [Quintiliano]. La pozionedell'odio (Decla­ mazioni maggiori), 14-15) (Cassino: Edizioni dell'Università degli...

Book Review| May 01 2009 Review: Influences on Peripatetic Rhetoric: Essays in Honor of William W. Fortenbaugh, by David C. Mirhady David C. Mirhady, ed., Influences on Peripatetic Rhetoric: Essays in Honor of William W. Fortenbaugh. Leiden: Brill, 2007. viii + 282 pp. Rhetorica (2009) 27 (2): 218–220. https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2009.27.2.218 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Review: Influences on Peripatetic Rhetoric: Essays in Honor of William W. Fortenbaugh, by David C. Mirhady. Rhetorica 1 May 2009; 27 (2): 218–220. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2009.27.2.218 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentRhetorica Search This content is only available via PDF. © 2009 by the Regents of the University of California2009 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Abstract In his Holy Sonnets, the English Renaissance poet and divine John Donne (1572–1631) gives voice to powerful emotional outbursts. Previous critics have mostly been concerned with the religious context and theological positions of the sonnets. This study rather attempts to isolate the psychological context of the poems by relating them to the early modern discourse on the passions. In order to grasp the pathos of Donne's Holy Sonnets, we need to consider the advice on how to handle violent emotion in such treatises as Thomas Wright's The Passions of the Minde in Generall (1604) and Edward Reynolds's A Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of the Soule of Man (1640).

Abstract Latin prose Panegyrics are a fourth-century product of Gallic rhetorical schools; they celebrate the emperor's virtues by widely employing structures and topoi commonly associated with epideictic theory and practice. This paper explores the presence of hymnic features within the corpus of the Latin Panegyrics. The following passages are investigated: 1) the celebration of Diocletian and Maximian as Iovius and Herculius in Panegyrics 10(2).1–6 and 11(3).3; 2) the praise of the Tiber and the hymn to the supreme God in the Panegyric dedicated to Constantine 12(9).18; 26; 3) the hymn to Greece in the Panegyric to Julian 3(11).8. The analysis shows how the panegyrists re-worked the laudatory material by adapting the style and topoi of hymns to gods to praise of the emperor.

Book Review| May 01 2009 Review: Trust in Texts: A Different History of Rhetoric, by Susan Miller Susan MillerTrust in Texts: A Different History of Rhetoric. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2008. xiv + 224 pp. Rhetorica (2009) 27 (2): 233–234. https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2009.27.2.233 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Review: Trust in Texts: A Different History of Rhetoric, by Susan Miller. Rhetorica 1 May 2009; 27 (2): 233–234. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2009.27.2.233 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentRhetorica Search This content is only available via PDF. © 2009 by the Regents of the University of California2009 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| May 01 2009 Review: Declamation, by Lucia Calboli Montefusco Lucia Calboli Montefusco, ed., Declamation. Proceedings of the Seminars held at the Scuola Superiore di Studi Umanistici, Bologna (February-March, 2006), Papers on Rhetoric VIII. Roma: Herder, 2007. XVIII, 291. Rhetorica (2009) 27 (2): 220–225. https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2009.27.2.220 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Review: Declamation, by Lucia Calboli Montefusco. Rhetorica 1 May 2009; 27 (2): 220–225. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2009.27.2.220 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentRhetorica Search This content is only available via PDF. © 2009 by the Regents of the University of California2009 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.