Plato As Author: The Rhetoric of Philosophy (Cincinnati Classical Studies New Series)

Plato As Author: The Rhetoric of Philosophy (Cincinnati Classical Studies New Series)

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Book Description
This collection, focusing on literary aspects of the Platonic dialogues, includes stimulating and diverse essays by scholars from several different fields.

Plato, the critic, satirist, and (perhaps) inventor of "rhetoric" framed his own discourse in complex ways. Republic is a mimetic text that presents a sophisticated analysis of the various types of mimesis; Phaedrus, featuring embedded exemplars of exquisite prose style, includes a severe critique of literary authorship. Texts such as these seem to demand the fullest resources of a sophisticated analysis of discourse.

Essay topics include friendship and desire in the Lysis, Socratic irony in Cratylus, mystery imagery in Phaedrus, and the peculiar couch in Book 10 of Republic. Contributors include Michael Erler, David Gallop, Francisco Gonzalez, Charles Kahn, Andrea Nightingale, and Thomas Szlezák.

About the Author
Ann N. Michelini, Ph.D. (1971) in Classics, Harvard University, is Emerita Professor of Classics at the University of Cincinnati. She is author of Euripides and the Tragic Tradition (Wisconsin, 1987) and articles on tragedy and the Platonic dialogues.

Plato As Author: The Rhetoric of Philosophy (Cincinnati Classical Studies New Series),Ann N. Michelini,Brill Academic Publishers,9004128786,Ancient and Classical,History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical,Interior Design - General,Language,Language Arts & Disciplines,Linguistics,Literary art,Philosophy,Plato,Rhetoric, Ancient

Book Contents:

1. Poems of Cupid, God of Love: Christine De Pizan's Epistre Au Dieu D'Amours and Dit De LA Rose; Thomas Hoccleve's the Letter of Cupid
2. Polymer Biomaterials in Solution, As Interfaces And As Solids: A Festschrift Honoring the 60th Birthday of Dr. Allan S. Hoffman
3. Private Entrepreneurs in China and Vietnam: Social and Political Functioning of Strategic Groups (China Studies, 4)
4. Pseudo-Basilius Adversus Eunomium Iv-V: Einleitung, Ubersetzung Und Kommentar (Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements, Vol 16)
5. Questions of Style: Literary Societies and Literary Journals in Modern China, 1911-1937 (China Studies, 2)
6. Reading the Book of Revelation: A Resource for Students (Resources for Biblical Study, No. 44)
7. Sabbath and Sectarianism in Seventeenth Century England (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History)
8. Salt Production Techniques in Ancient China: The Aobo Tu (Sinica Leidensia, Vol. 27)
9. Selected Studies of Jan Gonda: Presented to the Author by the Department of Indology, Utrect University, Vol 6, Parts 1-2 (Selected Studies of Jan Gonda , No 6)
10. Selective Guide to Chinese Literature 1900-1949: The Drama (Selected Guide to Chinese Literature 1900-1949 , Vol 4)

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