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<p>Key imperial and royal courts-in Han, Tang, and Song dynasty China; medieval and renaissance Europe; and Heian and Muromachi Japan-are examined in this comparative and interdisciplinary volume as loci of power and as entities that establish, influence, or counter the norms of a larger society. Contributions by twelve scholars are organized into sections on the rhetoric of persuasion, taste, communication, gender, and natural nobility. Writing from the perspectives of literature, history, and philosophy, the authors examine the use and purpose of rhetoric in their respective areas.<br> <p> In Rhetoric of Persuasion, we see that in both the third-century court of the last Han emperor and the fourteenth-century court of Edward II, rhetoric served to justify the deposition of a ruler and the establishment of a new regime. Rhetoric of Taste examines the courts influence on aesthetic values in China and Japan, specifically literary tastes in ninth-century China, the melding of literary and historical texts into a sort of national history in fifteenth-century Japan, and the embrace of literati painting innovations in twelfth-century China during a time when the literati themselves were

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Author

David Richard Knechtges; Eugene Augustus Vance

Publisher

University of Washington Press

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780295984506

Category

history

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Linguistics, Memoir

Rating

4.5 / 5 (2 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14