By Heinrich F Plett
The current research presents an intensive remedy of the subject of enargeia at the foundation of the classical and humanist assets of its theoretical origin. those function the root for special analyses of verbal and pictorial works of the Classical Antiquity and the Early glossy Age. Their theoretical foundation is the culture of classical rhetoric with its crucial representatives (Aristotle, Cicero, Quintilian) and their reception historical past. The ‘enargetic’ method of the humanities could be defined as rhetoric of presence and demonstrate, or aesthetics of facts and mind's eye. visible mind's eye performs a huge position within the techniques of impression in oratory, poetry, and drama of the Classical Antiquity and the Early glossy Age. Its implementations are manifested within the moment Sophistic and within the Early smooth Age, there mainly within the works of William Shakespeare.
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114b, pp. 598–601. On Rubens cf. Joanna Woodall et al. ), Pieter Paul Rubens: A Touch of Brilliance. Oil Sketches and Related Works from the State Hermitage Museum and the Courtauld Institute Gallery. Munich / Berlin /London / New York: Prestel, 2003. G. Austin, “Quintilian on Painting and Statuary”, Classical Quarterly 38 (1994), 17–26; Fernand Hallyn, “Quintilien et le débat sur la peinture à l’âge classique: l’expression des passions”, in: Quintilien ancien et moderne. Ed. Perrine Galand et al.
Londini: Apud Gerardum Drewes, super coemiterium D. Pauli. LXII, p. 86. The critical term enargia also appears in Richard Sherry’s Treatise of Schemes and Tropes (1550), which is based on Susenbrotus, in the following definition: “Enargia, euidence or perspicuitie called also descripcion rethoricall, is when a thynge is so described that it seemeth to the hearer or reader [that] he beholdeth it as it were in doyng. ” (Facsimile Reprint. : Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, 1961, p. 66). Cf. the articles by C.
LONDINI, Apud Henricum Middletonum. Anno Domini 1573, p. 121. 5 Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam, On Copia of Words and Ideas (De Utraque Verborum ac Rerum Copia). Translated from the Latin with an Introduction by Donald B. King & H. David Rix. Milwaukee, Wis: Marquette University Press, 1963, p. 47. 6 Cf. Astrid Schenka, Ekphrasis und Theatralität: Begegnung zweier Konzepte. Saarbrücken: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2007. 7 Aristotle, Poetics. Translated with an introduction and notes by Gerald F. Else.