I do not think Peacham, who theorizes "anapodoton" in *The Gardenof
Eloquence*, lacked a classical humanist education. Certainly Richard
Sherry, the theorizer of "tasis," another term ostensibly not mentioned in
the OED, was an esteemed classicist inhsi own time. See my article on
Sherry in th e*Dictionary of Literary Biography*. It still does amaze me
that Renaissance scholars prefer to turn to easy to follow modern lexica
insted of sixteenth century texts when they search for evidence. As I am a
passionate invesitigator of Renaissance rhetoric and poetry, and devoted to
precision, I leave the pursuit of the classsical lineage of this term to
those, like Professor Willet, with the professional expertise to do so, and
would be very interested in any conclusions.
For a brilliant and groundbreaking analysis of Peacham's theorization of
anadopoton, its philosophcial and psychological stakes, and their
conceptual connection with pastoral and dream, I refer you to Stephen
Whitworth's "'Far from Being: Rhetoric and Dream-Work in John Dickenson's
*Arisbas*' in *Exemplaria* 11.1 (1999). The category is taken up in my
article on "A Lover's Complaint" in the same issue and my *Risks of
Simile*. For those with a passion for lexica, it is even listed in the index.
Shirley Sharon-Zisser
At 13:39 19/10/00 +0900, you wrote:
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>On 17 Oct 2000, at 3:18, John Gleason wrote:
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>> My usually staid email has been flying high of late, most of it too high
>> for me. But I may help a little with the term anapodoton, mentioned in
>> Steven Willett's third point below. At some earlier stage in this thread I
>> believe it was stated that the word is not found in Liddell and Scott, but
>> in fact the Lexicon has it and glosses it "not given back, not returned."
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>I did in fact say it was cited in LS&J, but with no rhetorical meaning.
>The listed synonym is also without rhetorical flavor. Thanks,
>however, for the citation. None of the terms go back to Classical
>rhetoric, at least none are listed in the TLG CDROM, so they were
>invented sometime in the Renaissance. A Classical education
>wouldn't help one learn them and cannot, therefore, be used to
>authorize them.
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