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"There are no studies of a sacred grand style in the English Renaissance," writes Debora Shuger, "because even according to its practitioners it was not supposed to exist." Yet the grand style forms the unacknowledged center of traditional rhetorical theory. In this first history of the grand style, Professor Shuger explores the growth of a Christi



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*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. ix*INTRODUCTION, pg. 1*CHAPTER ONE. THE CHARACTERS OF STYLE FROM ANTIQUITY THROUGH THE MIDDLE AGES, pg. 14*CHAPTER TWO. THE HISTORY OF SACRED RHETORIC IN THE RENAISSANCE, pg. 55*CHAPTER THREE. RHETORIC, SOPHISTIC, AND PHILOSOPHY: THE LEGITIMATION OF PASSIONATE DISCOURSE, pg. 118*CHAPTER FOUR. HELLENISM AND HEBRAISM: THE DEVELOPMENT OF A NON-CICERONIAN GRAND STYLE, pg. 154*CHAPTER FIVE. GOD, SELF, AND PSYCHE: THE THEOLOGICAL BASES OF THE GRAND STYLE, pg. 193*CONCLUSION, pg. 241*APPENDIX. THE SEVEN IDEAS OF HERMOGENES, pg. 259*GLOSSARY OF RHETORICAL TERMS, pg. 261*BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 265*INDEX, pg. 283

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: 14/07/2014
      ISBN13: 9780691603285, 978-0691603285
      ISBN10: 0691603286
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      Book Synopsis

      "There are no studies of a sacred grand style in the English Renaissance," writes Debora Shuger, "because even according to its practitioners it was not supposed to exist." Yet the grand style forms the unacknowledged center of traditional rhetorical theory. In this first history of the grand style, Professor Shuger explores the growth of a Christi



      Table of Contents
      *FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. ix*INTRODUCTION, pg. 1*CHAPTER ONE. THE CHARACTERS OF STYLE FROM ANTIQUITY THROUGH THE MIDDLE AGES, pg. 14*CHAPTER TWO. THE HISTORY OF SACRED RHETORIC IN THE RENAISSANCE, pg. 55*CHAPTER THREE. RHETORIC, SOPHISTIC, AND PHILOSOPHY: THE LEGITIMATION OF PASSIONATE DISCOURSE, pg. 118*CHAPTER FOUR. HELLENISM AND HEBRAISM: THE DEVELOPMENT OF A NON-CICERONIAN GRAND STYLE, pg. 154*CHAPTER FIVE. GOD, SELF, AND PSYCHE: THE THEOLOGICAL BASES OF THE GRAND STYLE, pg. 193*CONCLUSION, pg. 241*APPENDIX. THE SEVEN IDEAS OF HERMOGENES, pg. 259*GLOSSARY OF RHETORICAL TERMS, pg. 261*BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 265*INDEX, pg. 283

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