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This book introduces a novel approach to the analysis and practice of persuasive speaking and writing: heuristic rhetoric. The new method has evolved to fulfil the need at universities, government departments, political organisations, business enterprises and other public institutions for a modern practical alternative to classical rhetoric, which is, in the author's view, no longer capable of giving a complete description of contemporary, predominantly mediatised, forms of public persuasive discourse, whilst other competing disciplines, such as critical discourse analysis or strategic manoeuvring, have not yet produced a set of tools, which have the comprehensive nature and practical orientation of Classical Greek and Roman rhetorical system. The book expounds heuristic rhetoric as an inter-disciplinary method to develop advanced skills of critical and strategic reasoning. Applying a novel set of principles for the strategic analysis of persuasive reasoning in complex rhetorical situations, the method emphasizes preparing and continuously adjusting argumentation according to the demands of unpredictable circumstances. Gábor Tahin is Head of Classics at Clifton College, Bristol, UK. His research interests include the philosophy and theory of rhetoric, Classical rhetoric, strategies of persuasive reasoning, and the practice of oratory. .

Politics --- Mass communications --- Classical literature --- Klassieke literatuur --- communicatie --- politiek

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This edited collection explores the image of the wound as a 'cultural symptom' and a literary-visual trope at the core of representations of a new concept of selfhood in Early Modern Italian and English cultures, as expressed in the two complementary poles of poetry and theatre. The semantic field of the wounded body concerns both the image of the wound as a traumatic event, which leaves a mark on someone's body and soul (and prompts one to investigate its causes and potential solutions), and the motif of the scar, which draws attention to the fact that time has passed and urges those who look at it to engage in an introspective and analytical process. By studying and describing the transmission of this metaphoric paradigm through the literary tradition, the contributors show how the image of the bodily wound-from Petrarch's representation of the Self to the overt crisis that affects the heroes and the poetic worlds created by Ariosto and Tasso, Spenser and Shakespeare-could respond to the emergence of Modernity as a new cultural feature.. Fabrizio Bondi is Fellow of Italian Literature at Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, Italy. Massimo Stella is Lecturer in Comparative Literatures and Theory of Literature at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy. Andrea Torre is Associate Professor of Italian Literature at Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, Italy.

Literature --- Classical literature --- Klassieke literatuur --- literatuur --- Renaissance --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Europe

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Pragmatics --- Psycholinguistics --- Poetry --- Comparative literature --- Classical literature --- Klassieke literatuur --- literatuur --- poëzie --- psycholinguïstiek --- pragmatisme

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Classical literature --- Classical philology --- Littérature ancienne --- Philologie ancienne --- History and criticism --- Periodicals. --- Periodicals --- Histoire et critique --- Périodiques --- Classical literature. --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- philology --- linguistics --- philosophy --- greek literature --- Literature, Classical --- Literature, Ancient --- Greek literature --- Latin literature --- Classical languages