caa a22 4500 388048581 CHVBK 20180307125044.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199812 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0263675100004774 doi S0263675100004774 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0263675100004774 Knappe Gabriele University of Bamberg Classical rhetoric in Anglo-Saxon England [Elektronische Daten] [Gabriele Knappe] This passage from The Wanderer demonstrates some of the rhetorical techniques which have been noted in Old English texts. Its most striking features are the rhetorical questions and the figure of anaphora which is produced by the repetition of ‘Hwær'. Another rhetorical element is the use of the theme (topos) of ubi sunt (‘where are ?') to lament the loss of past joys. In classical antiquity, features such as these, which served to create effective discourse, were the products of ars rhetorica. This art was distinguished from the more basic subject of ars grammatica in that rhetoric, the ‘ars ... bene dicendi' (Quintilian, Institutio oratoria II.xvii.37), aimed at the good production of text (for oral delivery) with the aim of persuading the listeners to take or adopt some form of action or belief, whereas grammar, the ‘recte loquendi scientia', was responsible for correct speech and also for the interpretation of poetical texts (‘poetarum enarratio': Quintilian, Institutio oratoria I.iv.2). In terms of classical rhetoric, the above passage from The Wanderer could be analysed according to the three phases of the production of a text (partes artis) which pertain to both written and oral discourse: inventio (finding topics such as the ubi sunt), dispositio (arranging the parts of the text) and elocutio (embellishing the text stylistically, for example with rhetorical questions and other figures and tropes). How and under what circumstances did the Anglo-Saxons acquire their knowledge of how to compose a text effectively? Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998 Anglo-Saxon England Cambridge University Press 27(1998-12), 5-29 0263-6751 27<5 1998 27 ASE https://doi.org/10.1017/S0263675100004774 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0263675100004774 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Knappe Gabriele University of Bamberg NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Anglo-Saxon England Cambridge University Press 27(1998-12), 5-29 0263-6751 27<5 1998 27 ASE CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge