ASIANISMUS 亞洲修飾法
RHETORICAL STYLE characterised by extensive flowery rhwetorical ornamentation and parallelism.
Flowery style full of rhetorical devices.
Hypernym
- RHETORICAL STYLE體裁詞格 RHETORICAL DEVICE which is mainly concerned with matters of style of presentation rather than distribution of expressions or semantic structure.
- RHETORICAL
DEVICE詞格 METHOD of adorning discourse.
EX: Lanham: Cicero (Brutus, 325) distinguishes two types of Asianism, one
"sententious and studied," the other notable for "swiftness and
impetuosity"; in practice, modern scholars may have difficulty
distinguishing the two. Let me try, though, borrowing examples from Pope's
Peri Bathous:
Plain style: "Snuff the Candle."
Sententious Asianism:
"Yon Luminary amputation needs,
Thus shall you save its half-extinguished life."
Plain style: "Light the Fire."
Impetuous Asianism:
"Bring forth some remnant of Promethean theft,
Quick to expand th'inclement air congealed
By Boreas' rude breath."
Greek/Latin: Commonly complained about.
Ancient Chinese: Few examples from pre-Buddhist China would seem satisfy ancient Roman ideas of the Asian style, but it remains well worthwhile to search for relevant cases.
REF: [[There are good accounts of this phenomenon in many histories of Latin literature. For a characterisation see standard histories of rhetoric, e.g. the very concise survey in the opening chapter of Sister Inviolata's book on Augustine's rhetoric.
EX: Lanham: Cicero (Brutus, 325) distinguishes two types of Asianism, one "sententious and studied," the other notable for "swiftness and impetuosity"; in practice, modern scholars may have difficulty distinguishing the two. Let me try, though, borrowing examples from Pope's Peri Bathous:
Plain style: "Snuff the Candle."
Sententious Asianism:
"Yon Luminary amputation needs,
Thus shall you save its half-extinguished life."
Plain style: "Light the Fire."
Impetuous Asianism:
"Bring forth some remnant of Promethean theft,
Quick to expand th'inclement air congealed
By Boreas' rude breath."
Greek/Latin: Commonly complained about.
Ancient Chinese: Few examples from pre-Buddhist China would seem satisfy ancient Roman ideas of the Asian style, but it remains well worthwhile to search for relevant cases.
Plain style: "Snuff the Candle."
Sententious Asianism:
"Yon Luminary amputation needs,
Thus shall you save its half-extinguished life."
Plain style: "Light the Fire."
Impetuous Asianism:
"Bring forth some remnant of Promethean theft,
Quick to expand th'inclement air congealed
By Boreas' rude breath."
Greek/Latin: Commonly complained about.
Ancient Chinese: Few examples from pre-Buddhist China would seem satisfy ancient Roman ideas of the Asian style, but it remains well worthwhile to search for relevant cases.
REF: [[There are good accounts of this phenomenon in many histories of Latin literature. For a characterisation see standard histories of rhetoric, e.g. the very concise survey in the opening chapter of Sister Inviolata's book on Augustine's rhetoric.
EX: Lanham: Cicero (Brutus, 325) distinguishes two types of Asianism, one "sententious and studied," the other notable for "swiftness and impetuosity"; in practice, modern scholars may have difficulty distinguishing the two. Let me try, though, borrowing examples from Pope's Peri Bathous:
Plain style: "Snuff the Candle."
Sententious Asianism:
"Yon Luminary amputation needs,
Thus shall you save its half-extinguished life."
Plain style: "Light the Fire."
Impetuous Asianism:
"Bring forth some remnant of Promethean theft,
Quick to expand th'inclement air congealed
By Boreas' rude breath."
Greek/Latin: Commonly complained about.
Ancient Chinese: Few examples from pre-Buddhist China would seem satisfy ancient Roman ideas of the Asian style, but it remains well worthwhile to search for relevant cases.
- Historisches Woerterbuch der Rhetorik
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UEDING
1992ff)
p.
1.1114