
Ancient rhetoric as a hermeneutical tool for the analysis of characterization in narrative literature
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- Koen De Temmerman (UGent)
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- This article argues that the conceptualization of the notions of character and characterization in ancient rhetorical treatises can serve as a hermeneutical tool for the analysis of characterization in narrative literature. It offers an analysis of ancient rhetorical loci and techniques of character depiction and points out that ancient rhetorical theory discusses direct, metaphorical, and metonymical techniques of characterization. Ultimately, it provides the modern scholar with a paradigm for the analysis of characterization in (ancient) narrative literature.
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- character, metonymy, progymnasmata, metaphor, literary composition, narrative, ethos, (techniques of) characterization, direct and indirect characterization, hermeneutics
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-854404
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- De Temmerman, Koen. “Ancient Rhetoric as a Hermeneutical Tool for the Analysis of Characterization in Narrative Literature.” RHETORICA-A JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF RHETORIC, vol. 28, no. 1, 2010, pp. 23–51, doi:10.1525/RH.2010.28.1.23.
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- De Temmerman, K. (2010). Ancient rhetoric as a hermeneutical tool for the analysis of characterization in narrative literature. RHETORICA-A JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF RHETORIC, 28(1), 23–51. https://doi.org/10.1525/RH.2010.28.1.23
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- De Temmerman, Koen. 2010. “Ancient Rhetoric as a Hermeneutical Tool for the Analysis of Characterization in Narrative Literature.” RHETORICA-A JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF RHETORIC 28 (1): 23–51. https://doi.org/10.1525/RH.2010.28.1.23.
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- De Temmerman, Koen. 2010. “Ancient Rhetoric as a Hermeneutical Tool for the Analysis of Characterization in Narrative Literature.” RHETORICA-A JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF RHETORIC 28 (1): 23–51. doi:10.1525/RH.2010.28.1.23.
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- 1.De Temmerman K. Ancient rhetoric as a hermeneutical tool for the analysis of characterization in narrative literature. RHETORICA-A JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF RHETORIC. 2010;28(1):23–51.
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- [1]K. De Temmerman, “Ancient rhetoric as a hermeneutical tool for the analysis of characterization in narrative literature,” RHETORICA-A JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF RHETORIC, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 23–51, 2010.
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