This volume examines the philosophical mobilization of metaphors for print, inscription, reading and knowledge organinzation in early modern philosophical texts in continental Europe. Primarily engaging with the work of Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz and Bayle while also touching o…
This volume examines the philosophical mobilization of metaphors for print, inscription, reading and knowledge organinzation in early modern philosophical texts in continental Europe. Primarily engaging with the work of Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz and Bayle while also touching o…
"The often overlapping discourses of nationalism and imperialism, along with related ideas of social decline, have been central in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Anglo-European views of the world. This book offers four readings of Latin literary texts to show that the templat…
The eleven studies in this volume illustrate and advance the synthesis of discourse analysis with rhetorical studies. Rhetoric in Detail shows how a variety of techniques from discourse analysis can be useful in studying such concerns as agency, legitimation, controversy, and st…
This is an exciting and original study of the poetic significance of formal repetition in Homer. The author argues that localization, metre, and verse-structure are regularly used as semantic markers, providing certain words with a 'meaning' that extends beyond their immediate c…
This is an exciting and original study of the poetic significance of formal repetition in Homer. The author argues that localization, metre, and verse-structure are regularly used as semantic markers, providing certain words with a 'meaning' that extends beyond their immediate c…