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Book SynopsisDiscussing the use of rhetoric in the royal courts of China, Europe, and Japan, this volume examines them as loci of power and as entities that establish, influence, or counter the norms of a larger society. It is organized into sections on the rhetoric of persuasion, taste, communication, gender, and natural nobility.
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Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction by David R. Knechtges
Part I. Rhetoric of Persuasion
1. The Rhetoric of Imperial Abdication and Accession in a Third-Century Chinese Court: The Case of Cao Pi's Accession as Emperor of the Wei Dynasty by David R. Knechtges
2. The Court, Politics, and Rhetoric in England, 1310-1330 by Scott L. Waugh
Part II. Rhetoric of Taste
3. Poems for the Emperor: Imperial Tastes in the Early Ninth Century by Pauline Wu
4. Claiming the Past for the Present: Ichijo Kaneyoshi and Tales of Ise by Steven D. Carter
5. The Emperor and the Ink Plum: Tracing a Lost Connection between Literati and Huizong's Court by Ronald Egan
Part III. Rhetoric of Communication
6. Personal Crisis and Communication in the Life of Cao Zhi by Robert Joe Cutter
7. Keeping Secrets in a Dark Age by Paul Edward Dutton
8. The Politics of Classical Chinese in the Early Japanese Court by Robert Borgen
Part IV. Rhetoric of Gender
9. One Sight: The Han shu Biography of Lady Li by Stephen Owen
10. Poetry of Palace Plaint of the Tang: Its Potential and Limitations by Kuo-ying Wang
Part V. Rhetoric of Natural Nobility
11. Dante in God's Court: The Paradise at the End of the Road by Eugene Vance
12. Practicing Nobility in Fifteenth-Century Burgundian Courtly Culture: Ideology and Politics by Arjo Vanderjagt
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