Abundancy, Redundancy, Cornucopia. Techniques of Amplification in Early Modern Epideictics (A05)

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Project A05, which in the second funding phase will combine rhetorical and linguistic expertise, studies techniques of hyperbolic amplification in Italian and German epideictic texts of the early modern period. These techniques are generally known in classical rhetoric as amplificatio. A05 focuses on forms of amplification that are particularly marked, elaborate, or even exaggerated; they are understood as figures of aesthetic reflection. In terms of literary and cultural history, they are situated in the context of the early modern argutia movement ('sophistry'), which originated in Italy and is a European phenomenon.