«Guts to grease the treads of our tanks» (George S. Patton): Placing Violence Before the Eyes in Battle Speeches from Antiquity to Present Days
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Abstract
Traditionally linked to war and violence, the long-neglected genre of battle speech has been drawing researchers’ attention again since a few years. Focusing on the rhetorical analysis of such kind of speeches, the present paper tries to highlight a specific feature, through ancient literary examples and modern speeches: the use visualisation and images of violence through discourse.
Keywords
- Rhetoric
- Battle Speech
- Ethopoiia
- Enargeia
- Patton
