traité tropes servir dintroduction rhetorique von dumarsais césar chesneau (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 8vo. [12], 274, [2]p. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine, red-edged leaves. Edges and corners worn, with some wear at head and foot of spine. **** Dumarsais s Des tropes, a study of the modification of meaning, was entirely neglected when it first appeared in 1730. Despite a second edition in 1757, the book only became famous at the end of the century and at the beginning of the next. Des tropes can be viewed as a branch of linguistic study devoted to the figurative use of words; the first part of the book relates this subject to Dumarsais s theory of knowledge and theory of the simplest use of signs; there is further discussion on the theory of liaison des idées. The second part deals with particular tropes: metonymy, hyperbole, metaphor, euphemism; and in the third part Dumarsais discusses such questions as sens literal , sens spirituel , sens abstrait and sens concret . See J.S. Spink, Philosophical speculation and literary technique: the systematic context of Du Marsais s Des tropes , in Voltaire and his world: studies presented to W.H. Barber, pp.241-60.