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- noun Plural form of
rhapsode .
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Longinus was either overstating it here, in rooting our respect for all the greatest rhapsodes, old and new, in their ability to sing the sublime into being in their works; or he was cyclically defining as the greatest those who fit his preferred aesthetic.
On the Sublime Hal Duncan 2010
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Emulation of the great rhapsodes becomes competition with the great rhapsodes.
On the Sublime Hal Duncan 2010
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Emulation of the great rhapsodes becomes competition with the great rhapsodes.
Archive 2010-03-01 Hal Duncan 2010
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Longinus was either overstating it here, in rooting our respect for all the greatest rhapsodes, old and new, in their ability to sing the sublime into being in their works; or he was cyclically defining as the greatest those who fit his preferred aesthetic.
Archive 2010-03-01 Hal Duncan 2010
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But if his hyperbole is a little unfair, it's not foolish; it would be far more foolish to underestimate the import of the sublime, the degree to which the fame of those rhapsodes rests on how responsive people are to that aesthetic.
On the Sublime Hal Duncan 2010
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But if his hyperbole is a little unfair, it's not foolish; it would be far more foolish to underestimate the import of the sublime, the degree to which the fame of those rhapsodes rests on how responsive people are to that aesthetic.
Archive 2010-03-01 Hal Duncan 2010
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If you want a pressure for that and pomo techniques in history, you can look at the episodic structural form of the rhapsodes, the stitchers-of-songs, who were weaving together all sorts of bits and bobs on a coherent theme for fairly logical reasons in context.
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It comes as no surprise to read that Socrates indicts rhapsodes on the grounds that their speeches proceed
Plato on Rhetoric and Poetry Griswold, Charles 2008
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Finally, since the poets and their rhapsodes both present views about how things are and ought to be, and seek to persuade their auditors of the same, they cannot escape responsibility for the implicit claim to wisdom and authority they make.
Plato on Rhetoric and Poetry Griswold, Charles 2008
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Poetry-as-mere-rhetoric is not a promising credential for authority either to educate all of Greece or to better one's audience; (b. 2) is not a position that poets or their rhapsodes would, presumably, be eager to adopt.
Plato on Rhetoric and Poetry Griswold, Charles 2008
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