This book analyzes the relation between the flow time and poetic speech in drama and rhetoric. It begins with the classical understanding of time as flux, and its problems and paradoxes entailing from Aristotle, Augustine, Kant and Husserl. The reader will see how these problems unfold and find resolutions through dramatic speech and rhetoric which has an essential relation to the flow of time. It covers elements in poetic speech such as affect, rhythm, metaphor, and syntax. It uses examples from classical rhetorical theories by Aristotle, Cicero, Quintilian, dramatic speeches from Shakespeare, as well as other modern dramatic texts by Chekhov, Beckett, Jelinek and Sarah Kane. This book appeals to students and academic researchers working in the philosophical fields of aesthetics and phenomenology as well those working in theater and the performing arts.
Author(s): Kwok Kui Wong
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 189
City: Cham
Acknowledgements
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The Flux of Time
From Heraclitus to Aristotle
Augustine’s esse
Analogies of Time: Kant
Husserl’s Stream
The Unmoving “I”?
Chapter 3: From Chaos to Order
Bergson on Pure Duration
Movement of the Soul: Plato
Time and Speech: Plato Again
Language and Ordered Time
Example: Richard II’s Soliloquy
Chapter 4: Affect and Language
Pathos, Affect, and Emotion
Theory of Affected Time
Origin of Language from Affect: Herder
Language as Articulation: Humboldt
Conclusion
Chapter 5: Rhythm
Introduction
The Schopenhauer Effect
Rhetoric and Rhythm
Time and Space: From Diderot, Kant to Hegel
Rhythm and Symbolic Expression: Schlegel
Actio in distans: Nietzsche’s Theory of Rhythm
Theory of the Continuum of Affect
Rhythm and Analogies of Experience: Kant
Rhythm and Resonance: Bergson
Semantic Sphere: Schopenhauer
Example: King Lear
Chapter 6: Metaphor
Introduction
Metaphoric Transference
Metaphor and Affect: Herder
Kant on Metaphor
Ricoeur’s Theory of Metaphor
Metaphoric of Change
Word and Sentence
Metaphor in Modern Drama
Chapter 7: Syntax
Rhyme and Sentence
Syntax in Classical Rhetoric: Cicero
Cassirer on Syntax
Syntax in Lyric
Subject and Substance
Delivery: Hamlet’s Instruction
Challenges from Modern Theater
Rhythm and Figuration in Life
Bibliography
Index
