PART I Poetica: Tasso's Epic Theory and the Rhetorical Tradition
1 Inventio
7
(38)
Classical meanings of materia
8
(8)
Materia vs. forma
16
(4)
Materia as subject-matter
20
(16)
The Tasso-Ariosto polemic
36
(9)
2 Dispositio
45
(24)
From materia to favola: aims and effects
47
(8)
A history of dual order in rhetoric and poetics
55
(14)
3 Elocutio
69
(40)
General theory of style
73
(18)
The style of the Gerusalemme liberata
91
(18)
PART II Poesia: Rhetorical Practice in the Gerusalemme liberata
4 Negation
109
(40)
Negative strings
112
(3)
Litotes
115
(15)
Antithesis
130
(19)
5 The Mirror Episode
149
(25)
Lacan's mirror stage
150
(7)
The mirror ritual as primary narcissism
157
(3)
The shield-as-mirror stage
160
(14)
6 The Ideology of the Look
174
(48)
Looking and seeing
181
(22)
Not looking and not seeing
203
(4)
Appearing and not appearing
207
(3)
Directing the look of another
210
(3)
Seeming
213
(1)
Seeing as knowing
214
(4)
The Reader and the look
218
(2)
Syntax
220
(2)
Bibliography
222
(9)
Index of names and texts
231
(4)
Subject index
235
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