Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Christiansen, Nancy L

Titel

Rhetoric as Character-Fashioning: The Implications of Delivery’s “Places” in the British Renaissance Paideia

Ist Teil von

• Rhetorica, 1997-07, Vol.15 (3), p.297-334

Ort / Verlag

Berkeley, Calif: Johns Hopkins University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

1997

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Pronuntiatio teaches character creation and analysis. Because the rhetorical curriculum in the British Renaissance considers pronuntiatio essential, retains the educational goal of facilitas, treats every “text” as a declamation, and depicts inventio, dispositio, elocutio, and memoria in behavioral metaphors with rules mirroring those of pronuntiatio, Renaissance rhetoric is in practice an art of behavior centrally concerned with decorum. This connection between Renaissance rhetoric and ethics suggests a defense for the claim that the good orator is the good man and expands the domain of rhetoric from an art of expression, composition, or persuasion to an art of character-fashioning.