10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ENCOMIASTIC»
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encomiastic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
encomiastic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
First Person Futures in Pindar
Bundy includes it in his list of encomiastic futures (I, p. 21). Carey ad loc. follows
Bundy and calls it a "dynamic substitute for the flat 8everai, or even 8e'8exrcu" (p.
86). The possibility of a locale other than Gyrene for the performance cannot be ...
Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, 1999
2
The Global Game: Writers on Soccer
17. Encomiastic. Arts. of. Our. National. Gamesmen. Antonio Skármeta Translated
from the Spanish by Malcolm Coad Soccer can be a source of boundless joy, but
it has also been used by dictators and military regimes to further their own ...
John Turnbull, Thom Satterlee, Alon Raab, 2008
3
Genres in Dialogue: Plato and the Construct of Philosophy
For, by setting up encomiastic discourse as a foil for Socratic discourse, Plato
asks us to analyze not only what Socrates says, but how and to whom he says it
and what sort of effect it produces on its audience. The dialogue, then, does not ...
Andrea Wilson Nightingale, 2000
4
Beginnings in Classical Literature
This unexceptionable assertion reflects such traditional encomiastic formulations
as Pindar, Mem. 8.39 ocivegov aivnTa, iiopcpav 8' ETricnrapcov aAiTpois. The
challenge Gorgias has set himself in the present work is to demonstrate that ...
Francis M. Dunn, Thomas Cole, 1992
5
Stories from the Mountains, Stories from the Sea: The ...
By comparison, while the Theriaca and Alexipharmaca of Nicander both start with
brief dedications44, there is no other example of encomiastic praise in earlier
Greek didactic verse on the same scale. Inspiration for the encomiastic praise
may ...
Adam Nicholas Bartley, 2003
6
Niketas Choniates: A Historiographical Study
encomiastic sources only in those passages where he was critical of the
Komnenian emperors, and even on such occasions, the language he employed
was reminiscent of rhetorical motifs found in encomiastic literature.71 Niketas'
preference ...
7
Paul's Offer of Leniency (2 Cor 10:1): Populist Ideology and ...
Encomiastic. Rhetoric. In his fourth oration, ITepl (3aoiAeiac; d, Dio Chrysostom
tells a popular story about the encounter between Alexander and Diogenes.
Years later, Dio relates, people continued to praise Alexander for his conduct
toward ...
8
Ekphrasis, Imagination and Persuasion in Ancient Rhetorical ...
Conversely, the models of ekphrasis by Aphthonios and Libanios have
unmistakably encomiastic aims. Their approach to the subject is in itself
encomiastic. Aphthonios' description (which takes the form of a detailed verbal
tour around the ...
9
Progymnasmata: Greek Textbooks of Prose Composition and Rhetoric
on the basis of nature or custom or law, or if it is a holy duty [73] for the fatherland
or our ancestors, what are we asking except what benefits would come from
marriage, which would be enthymemes of one of the encomiastic headings?
George Alexander Kennedy, 2003
10
Surprised by God: Praise Responses in the Narrative of Luke-Acts
About this critique of encomiastic discourse, Andrea Wilson Nightingale writes:
First, [Plato] illustrates and comments on the vices that inhere in the encomiastic
genre. Second, he juxtaposes Socrates' ironic 'praises' of his interlocutors with ...
Kindalee Pfremmer De Long, 2007
8 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ENCOMIASTIC»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
encomiastic is used in the context of the following news items.
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In fact, some viewers clobbered the judges for commentary that they reasoned was too encomiastic. Another difference is that Yang, Park and ... «Korea Times, Feb 15»
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Pusillanimous, gourami, supposititious, glaciofluvial, encomiastic, pinealectomy and teppanyaki were among the words awaiting the spellers. «Harrison Daily, Jan 15»
Army Navy: The Wilderness Inside
Perhaps the best approbation for the record's mission is explored on the song “Spinning on the Record”—an encomiastic love letter to music ... «Paste Magazine, Jul 14»
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When a company is built on the foundation of 'Never Fail a Client & Never Fail an Employee', it becomes unerring. This is precisely what ... «Siliconindia.com, Jul 14»
Cleveland Makes it to Forbes List for Something Other Than …
Whatever the impetus, we now rank in their latest sorta-nebulous but encomiastic list, “15 U.S. Cities' Emerging Downtowns,” which, as the ... «Cleveland Scene Weekly, Mar 13»
The Bachelor Finale: The 16 Most Profound, Philosophical …
And Robin, an engineer from Dallas, takes a strong stance against the ontological assertions of the archaic Greek encomiastic poet ... «Vanity Fair, Mar 13»
'Essays in Biography' by Joseph Epstein
But the encomiastic mode shows Epstein at his most generous best, with pieces on heroes as widely divergent as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and ... «Boston Globe, Oct 12»
Sailing on the Open Sea: John Updike's Higher Gossip: Essays and …
... and others receive equally encomiastic tributes. Taken together, these unequivocal pabula approach an idolization rather out of keeping with ... «The Millions, Jan 12»
