Wit and the Writing of History: The Rhetoric of Historiography in Imperial RomeUniversity of Wisconsin Press, 1988 - 182 من الصفحات |
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... society . For the most part such protest did not rise above the level of ordinary ludibrium . Tacitus defines his own position by insisting that his account will not replicate the absurdity of events in rhetorical excess of its own ...
... society . For the most part such protest did not rise above the level of ordinary ludibrium . Tacitus defines his own position by insisting that his account will not replicate the absurdity of events in rhetorical excess of its own ...
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... society . They knew that its implications were simultaneously serious and absurd and that discussion could itself scarcely avoid becoming in some sense a form of wit . The case of Corax and Tisias ( or Protagoras and Euathius ) is the ...
... society . They knew that its implications were simultaneously serious and absurd and that discussion could itself scarcely avoid becoming in some sense a form of wit . The case of Corax and Tisias ( or Protagoras and Euathius ) is the ...
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... society and anti - society . " Fowler goes on to illustrate " dialogue between antithetical ide- ologies " with newspaper accounts of trials staged by the kidnappers of Aldo Moro . In the headline " MORO ' TRIAL " " the false use of ...
... society and anti - society . " Fowler goes on to illustrate " dialogue between antithetical ide- ologies " with newspaper accounts of trials staged by the kidnappers of Aldo Moro . In the headline " MORO ' TRIAL " " the false use of ...
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Ludibrium and Political Wit | 15 |
Techniques of Wit | 56 |
Enacted Wit | 69 |
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