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Publication Date: 1988
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Towards a Cultural Understanding of Classical Epideictic Oratory.
Poulakos, Takis
Pre/Text: An International Journal of Rhetoric, v9 n3-4 p147-66 Fall-Win 1988
Looks beyond the abstract realm of shared beliefs in order to strengthen epideictic's relation to the social sphere. Argues that epideictic oratory in classical Greece is a worthy object of study and provides an opportunity for inquiring into the relation between epideictic oratory and society. Argues that epideictic oratory gives artistic expression to a society's contradictions. (RS)
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Language: English
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