Author: Copeland, Rita
Title: The Ciceronian Rhetorical Tradition and Medieval Literary Theory
Review/Collection: in: Cox, V. & Ward, J. O. (Ed.), The Rhetoric of Cicero in its Medieval and Early Renaissance Commentary Tradition (Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition, 2)
Place edition: Leiden & Boston
Editor: Brill
Year edition: 2006
Pages: 239–265
Keywords: Héritage - Fortuna - Legacy, Rhétorique - Retorica - Rhetorics
Description: Cicero was not a literary theorist in any traditional sense of the term. He did not produce a prescriptive poetics like Horace’s Ars poetica, or a descriptive poetics like those of Aristotle, Longinus, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, or any of the Neoplatonist theorists of late antiquity. He did not write a significant hermeneutical treatise. Yet Ciceronian models of topical invention had a profound influence on medieval literary theory, medieval scriptural hermeneutics, and academic discourse about knowledge or ‘science’. Cicero also, of course, bequeathed a highly prescriptive theory of translation to the Middle Ages through Jerome’s translation theory, and nearly always had a fellow traveller in Horatian precepts about literary composition. In this chapter I will trace the legacy of Ciceronian rhetoric and its commentary traditions in four broadly defined fields: Augustinian hermeneutics and inventional theory; ‘grammatical’ traditions of literary analysis; translation theory; and the emergence of literary analysis into scientific discourses [Author].
Works:
Link: http://www.brill.nl/rhetoric-cicero-its-medieval-and-early-renaissance-commentary-tradition
Author initials: Copeland 2006
Title: The Ciceronian Rhetorical Tradition and Medieval Literary Theory
Review/Collection: in: Cox, V. & Ward, J. O. (Ed.), The Rhetoric of Cicero in its Medieval and Early Renaissance Commentary Tradition (Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition, 2)
Place edition: Leiden & Boston
Editor: Brill
Year edition: 2006
Pages: 239–265
Keywords: Héritage - Fortuna - Legacy, Rhétorique - Retorica - Rhetorics
Description: Cicero was not a literary theorist in any traditional sense of the term. He did not produce a prescriptive poetics like Horace’s Ars poetica, or a descriptive poetics like those of Aristotle, Longinus, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, or any of the Neoplatonist theorists of late antiquity. He did not write a significant hermeneutical treatise. Yet Ciceronian models of topical invention had a profound influence on medieval literary theory, medieval scriptural hermeneutics, and academic discourse about knowledge or ‘science’. Cicero also, of course, bequeathed a highly prescriptive theory of translation to the Middle Ages through Jerome’s translation theory, and nearly always had a fellow traveller in Horatian precepts about literary composition. In this chapter I will trace the legacy of Ciceronian rhetoric and its commentary traditions in four broadly defined fields: Augustinian hermeneutics and inventional theory; ‘grammatical’ traditions of literary analysis; translation theory; and the emergence of literary analysis into scientific discourses [Author].
Works:
Link: http://www.brill.nl/rhetoric-cicero-its-medieval-and-early-renaissance-commentary-tradition
Author initials: Copeland 2006
