Research Catalog

Title

Enargeia in classical antiquity and the early modern age : the aesthetics of evidence / by Heinrich F. Plett.

Author

Plett, Heinrich F.

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

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Details

Description

xii, 240 pages : illustrations (some color); 25 cm.

Summary

"The present study provides an extensive treatment of the topic of Enargeia on the basis of the classical and humanist sources of its theoretical foundation. These serve as the basis for detailed analyses of verbal and pictorial works of the Classical Antiquity and the Early Modern Age. Their theoretical basis is the tradition of classical rhetoric with its principal representatives (Aristotle, Cicero, Quintilian) and their reception history. The 'enargetic' approach to the arts may be described as rhetoric of presence and display, or aesthetics of evidence and imagination. Visual imagination plays a major role in the concepts of effect in oratory, poetry, and drama of the Classical Antiquity and the Early Modern Age. Its implementations are manifested in the Second Sophistic and in the Early Modern Age, there above all in the works of William Shakespeare."--Publisher's website.

Series Statement

International studies in the history of rhetoric, 1865-1148 ; volume 4

Uniform Title

International studies in the history of rhetoric ; v. 4.

Subject

• ART / Performance
• ART / Reference
• Art and literature
• Greek literature > Influence
• Latin literature > Influence
• Rhetoric, Ancient
• Ut pictura poesis (Aesthetics)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [199]-216) and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Classical Sources and Their Humanist Reception -- Enargeia in humanist writings and its theoretical foundation -- Shakespeare and Enargeia (A) -- Ekphraseis of places and pictures -- Enargetic representations of persons -- The poetics of Ekphrasis and Enargeia -- Enargeia in teichoscopy and messenger's report -- Shakespeare and Enargeia (B) -- Enargeia in operatic libretti -- Enargeia in mnemonics and meditation -- Enargeia and the visual arts -- Ut pictura poesis -- Enargeia and perspective -- Shakespeare and Enargeia (C) -- Enargeia in theory and practice of the visual and verbal arts -- The Enargeia of music in theory and practice.

ISBN

• 9789004227026 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 9004227024 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 9789004231184 (e-book)
• 9004231188 (e-book)

LCCN

^^2012016830

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library