Towards a Theory of Vivid Description as Practiced in Cicero’s Verrine Oration

Autore: Innocenti, Beth
Titolo: Towards a Theory of Vivid Description as Practiced in Cicero’s Verrine Oration
Rivista/Miscellanea: Rhetorica Vol. 12, No. 4,
Anno edizione: 1994
Pagine: 355?381
Parole chiave: Rhétorique - Retorica - Rhetorics, Stylistique et genres littéraires - Stilistica e generi letterari - Stylistics and literary genre
Recensione:

Cité par : Beth Innocenti Manolescu (2006), A Normative Pragmatic Perspective on Appealing to Emotions in Argumentation. Argumentation 20:3, 327

Descrizione: Beth Innocenti, Department of Speech Communication, University of Illinois [Abstract] Ancient Roman rhetoricians do not offer a systematic theory of vivid description in their rhetorical treatises, perhaps because it was treated at the early stages of a student’s education and because it may be produced in various ways to achieve various purposes. After examining the references to vivid description scattered throughout ancient rhetorical treatises in discussions of style, amplification, narration, and proof, as well as Cicero’s use of the tectinique in the Verrine orations, I suggest precepts which may have guided the means by and ends for which vivid descriptions are produced.
Opere:
Sigla autore: Innocenti B. 1994