Christian plain style : the evolution of a spiritual ideal /
Locating the roots of the plain style in secular and philosophic classicism, Auksi examines theories on classical rhetoric from Demetrius and Dionysius of Halicarnassus to Cicero and Quintilian. He shows how biblicists deliberately transformed a heathen mode, and demonstrates that rhetoric served a...
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Montreal [Que.] :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
1995.
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Table of Contents:
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Christian Literary Culture and the Study of Simplicity
- 2 The Plain Style in Classical Rhetoric
- 3 Scripture and the Creative Motive
- 4 Channels of Transmission: Augustine and Paul
- 5 The Church Fathers and Christian Style
- 6 Medieval Rhetoric and the Art of Simplicity
- 7 Regenerate Art: The Major Reformers
- 8 Renaissance Plainness: Sources, Contexts, and Uses
- 9 Spiritual Rhetoric and the English Reformation
- Epilogue: Decline and Transformation
- Notes
- Bibliography
- IndexA
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
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