TY  - BOOK
AU  - Valiavitcharska,Vessela
TI  - Rhetoric and Rhythm in Byzantium: The Sound of Persuasion 
SN  - 9781139584029 (ebook)
AV  - PA5115 .V35 2013
U1  - 880.9/002 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Rhythm in literature
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016)
N2  - Rhetoric and Rhythm in Byzantium takes a fresh look at rhetorical rhythm and its theory and practice, highlighting the close affinity between rhythm and argument. Based on material from Byzantine and Old Church Slavonic homilies and from Byzantine rhetorical commentaries, the book redefines and expands our understanding of both Byzantine and Old Church Slavonic prose rhythm. It positions rhetorical rhythm at the intersection of prose and poetry and explores its role in argumentation and persuasion, suggesting that rhetorical rhythm can carry across linguistic boundaries, and in general aims to demonstrate the stylistic and argumentative importance of rhythm in rhetorical practice. Along the way, it challenges the entrenched separation between content and style and emphasizes the role of rhythm as a tool of invention and a means of creating shared emotional experience
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139584029
ER  -