Rhetoric and Disposition, Temperament and Place: Polykleitan Rules

This paper explores the relationships between style and complexion, temperament and disposition, climate and place in seventeenth-century thought. Facility and variation in style not only depend on reason, judgement, and responsiveness, but on the material substrata of the imagination and memory, in...

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Published in:Rhetorica 2023-06, Vol.41 (3), p.312-347
Main Author: Pender, Stephen
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
17th century
Anthropology
Cold
Ethnography
Heat
Historical text analysis
Motility
Physiology
Rhetoric
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Summary:This paper explores the relationships between style and complexion, temperament and disposition, climate and place in seventeenth-century thought. Facility and variation in style not only depend on reason, judgement, and responsiveness, but on the material substrata of the imagination and memory, in turn conditioned by air and temperament, climate and the uneven geographical distribution of environmental and internal, vital heat. This ensemble ofconcernes spurred wide-ranging enquiry in early modern anthropology, ethnography, and rhetoric, which I examine her in order to substantiate the mathematician and rhetorician Bernard Lamy's 1675 claim that "Every Clymat hath its style."
ISSN:0734-8584
1533-8541
1533-8541
DOI:10.1353/rht.2023.a910303