The Nordic Network for the History of Rhetoric
proudly presents:
 

Pernille Harsting and Stefan Ekman (eds.),
Ten Nordic Studies in the History of Rhetoric
Nordic Studies in the History of Rhetoric, vol. 1
Copenhagen: NNRH, 2002
175 pages

ISBN: 87-988829-0-2

Price:  20€  (Dkr 150), postage and packing not included
 

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Ten Nordic Studies in the History of Rhetoric


This is the first volume in the *NNRH* series of NORDIC STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF RHETORIC, which presents the most recent results of Nordic research in the field. 

The ten articles published here cover a wide range of topics in the history of rhetoric: from the cultivation of anti-theoretical rhetoric in 10th century Russia to the cult of body language in 20th century Denmark; from the enthusiastic rediscovery of ancient rhetoric in the Italian Renaissance to the moralistic rejection of rhetorical effects in early Swedish novels; and from Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten's rhetoric of aesthetics to Henry David Thoreau's rhetoric of ethics and civil action.

The contributers to the volume are (in alphabetical order): Amund Børdahl (N), Stefan Ekman (S), Henrik Gustafsson (S), Pernille Harsting (DK), Christian Høgel (DK), Ingunn Lunde (N), Mats Malm (S), Päivi Mehtonen (SF), Merete Onsberg (DK), and Jon Viklund (S).

 

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Ten Nordic Studies in the History of Rhetoric


Contents
PREFACE  7
Ingunn LUNDE:  Text and Theory: Reflections on the History 
   of Rhetoric in Pre-Petrine Russia 		 11
Christian HØGEL:  Metaphrasis and the Rewriting of Saints' Lives 
   in Byzantium 		 27
Pernille HARSTING:  The Discovery of Late-Classical Epideictic Theory 
   in the Italian Renaissance 		 39
Amund BØRDAHL:  Omer Talon's Rhetoric in 17th Century 
   Denmark-Norway 		 55
Mats MALM:  Rhetoric and Realism in 18th Century Swedish Novels  77
Päivi MEHTONEN:  Theories of Obscurity in Quintilian and in 
   the 18th Century 		 95
Stefan EKMAN:  A Suite of Poems on the Death of Sophia Carlsson 
   Published in Gothenburg Newspapers in 1777 		 109
Merete ONSBERG:  Body in Action: A Comparison between 
   an Elocutionary and a Modern Handbook 		 127
Jon VIKLUND:  Chiasmus as an Argumentative Figure in C. J. L.
   Almqvist's "The Ideas of History" (1819) 		 143
Henrik GUSTAFSSON:  Thoreau's Rhetoric of Man and Machine in 
   "Resistance to Civil Government" 		 157
INDEX OF NAMES  169
AUTHORS' ADDRESSES  175

 

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13 December 2004 (nnrh@nnrh.dk).