{"product_id":"9781849667562","title":"Figuratively Speaking: Rhetoric and Culture from Quintilian to the Twin Towers","description":"Although rhetoric is a term often associated with lies, this book takes a polemical look at rhetoric as a purveyor of truth. Its purpose is to focus on one aspect of rhetoric, figurative speech, and to demonstrate how the treatment of figures of speech provides a common denominator among western cultures from Cicero to the present. The central idea is that, in the western tradition, figurative speech - using language to do more than name - provides the fundamental way for language to articulate concerns central to each cultural moment. In this study, Sarah Spence identifies the embedded tropes for four periods in Western culture: Roman antiquity, the High Middle Ages, the Age of Montaigne, and our present, post-9\/11 moment. In so doing, she reasserts the fundamental importance of rhetoric, the art of speaking well.","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47136285262064,"sku":"9781849667562","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781849667562_p0.jpg?v=1763753961","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781849667562","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}