Since Jaco Burckhardt's Kultur der Renaissance in Italien (1869) rhetoric as a significant cultural factor of the renaissance has largely been neglected. The present study seeks to remedy this deficit
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 ana
The subject of this book is literary rhetoric which is treated both in a historical outline and a systematic concept, implemented in analyses of literary texts of all ages and languages.