Sale!

Rhetoric and the Discourses of Power in Court Culture China Europe and Japan 1st Edition by David R Knechtges,Eugene Vance ISBN 0295984503 978-0295984506

Original price was: $50.00.Current price is: $35.00.

Rhetoric and the Discourses of Power in Court Culture China Europe and Japan David R. Knechtges Digital Instant Download

Author(s): David R. Knechtges, Eugene Vance (Eds.)
ISBN(s): 9780295984506, 0295984503
Edition: Illustrated
File Details: PDF, 11.04 MB
Year: 2005
Language: english
SKU: EB-38483494 Category: Tags: ,

Rhetoric and the Discourses of Power in Court Culture China Europe and Japan 1st Edition by David R. Knechtges, Eugene Vance – Ebook PDF Instant Download/Delivery: 0295984503, 978-0295984506

Full download Rhetoric and the Discourses of Power in Court Culture China Europe and Japan 1st Edition after payment

 

 

Product details:

ISBN 10: 0295984503

ISBN 13: 978-0295984506 

Author: David R. Knechtges, Eugene Vance

Key imperial and royal courts―in Han, Tang, and Song dynasty China; medieval and renaissance Europe; and Heian and Muromachi Japan―are examined in this comparative and interdisciplinary volume as loci of power and as entities that establish, influence, or counter the norms of a larger society. Contributions by twelve scholars are organized into sections on the rhetoric of persuasion, taste, communication, gender, and natural nobility. Writing from the perspectives of literature, history, and philosophy, the authors examine the use and purpose of rhetoric in their respective areas.

In Rhetoric of Persuasion, we see that in both the third-century court of the last Han emperor and the fourteenth-century court of Edward II, rhetoric served to justify the deposition of a ruler and the establishment of a new regime. Rhetoric of Taste examines the court’s influence on aesthetic values in China and Japan, specifically literary tastes in ninth-century China, the melding of literary and historical texts into a sort of national history in fifteenth-century Japan, and the embrace of literati painting innovations in twelfth-century China during a time when the literati themselves were out of favor. Rhetoric of Communication considers official communications to the throne in third-century China, the importance of secret communications in Charlemagne’s court, and the implications of the use of classical Chinese in the Japanese court during the eighth and ninth centuries. Rhetoric of Gender offers the biography of a former Han emperor’s favorite consort and studies the metaphorical possibilities of Tang palace plaints. Rhetoric of Natural Nobility focuses on Dante’s efforts to confirm his nobility of soul as a poet, surmounting his non-noble ancestry, and the development of the texts that supported the political ideologies of the fifteenth-century Burgundian dukes Philip the Good and Charles the Bold.

Table of contents:

Part I. Rhetoric of Persuasion

  • CHAPTER 1: The Rhetoric of Imperial Abdication and Accession in a Third-Century Chinese Court: The Case of Cao Pi’s Accession as Emperor of the Wei Dynasty

  • CHAPTER 2: The Court, Politics, and Rhetoric in England, 1310–1330

Part II. Rhetoric of Taste

  • CHAPTER 3: Poems for the Emperor: Imperial Tastes in the Early Ninth Century

  • CHAPTER 4: Claiming the Past for the Present: Ichijō Kaneyoshi and Tales of Ise

  • CHAPTER 5: The Emperor and the Ink Plum: Tracing a Lost Connection between Literati and Huizong’s Court

Part III. Rhetoric of Communication

  • CHAPTER 6: Personal Crisis and Communication in the Life of Cao Zhi

  • CHAPTER 7: Keeping Secrets in a Dark Age

  • CHAPTER 8: The Politics of Classical Chinese in the Early Japanese Court

Part IV. Rhetoric of Gender

  • CHAPTER 9: One Sight: The Han shu Biography of Lady Li

  • CHAPTER 10: Poetry of Palace Plaint of the Tang: Its Potential and Limitations

Part V. Rhetoric of Natural Nobility

  • CHAPTER 11: Dante in God’s Court: The Paradise at the End of the Road

  • CHAPTER 12: Practicing Nobility in Fifteenth-Century Burgundian Courtly Culture: Ideology and Politics

Back Matter

People also search for:

    
rhetoric and the discourses
    
what is the difference between rhetoric and argument
    
what is the difference between rhetoric and rhetorical
    
is rhetoric the same as argument
    
can rhetoric only be used in written form

Tags: David R Knechtges, Eugene Vance, Rhetoric and the Discourses, of Power in Court Culture, China Europe and Japan