ENG 303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Hyperbaton
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English 303: introduction to literary theory and criticism. How does it compare to gorgias, plato, aristotle on the question of what. Excellence of discourse can produce, or how such discourse is to be judged: that last sentence, which describes sublimity as tear[ing] everthing up like a whirlwind is famous. Pay attention to it and think about it: take note of the five sources of sublimity on pages 138-39. Again, fit them into longinus" overall discussion, so that you might not only recite them, but understand them. Longinus would place those examples side by side: on page 146, longinus talks about a rhetorical figure of speech (a rhetorical strategy) called. Important: alexander pope, an 18th-century critic and poet, said that longinus was. What is his basic point about which of those two things he prefers and why: longinus does something very clever here: he makes plato his chief example of.
