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Canon of rhetoric
Inventio, one of the five canons of rhetoric, is the method used for the discovery of arguments in Western rhetoric and comes from the Latin word, meaning "invention" or "discovery". Inventio is the central, indispensable canon of rhetoric, and traditionally means a systematic search for arguments. Wikipedia →
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- Read the overview: InventioA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Inventio Fortunata: El libro sobre un fantasioso Ártico del medievoInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Inventio Sanctae CrvcisThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Reinventing inventioCited 45 times
- Go sideways: Rhetorical reasonA closely related topic
- Go sideways: DispositioA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun One of the five canons of classical rhetoric: the method used for the discovery of arguments.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Reinventing inventio
Whose Ideas?: The Technical Writer's Expertise in Inventio
Cicerón, Vitruvio, Daniele Barbaro y Andrea Palladio: el proceso creativo clásico de la inventio-dispositio y el concepto de disegno del Renacimiento italiano
An Early Literary Quotation from the Inventio S. Crucis. A Note on Baudonivia's Vita S. Radegundis (BHL 7049)
A Comment on "Reinventing Inventio"
Things in Doubt: <i>Inventio,</i> Dialectic, and Jewish Secrets in Cynewulf’s <i>Elene</i>
Inventio Patriarcharum
Inventio et dispositio dans la Baraxa nueva de versos de Francisco de la Torre y Sevil (1654)
🆕 Influential since 2022
Inventio Fortunata: El libro sobre un fantasioso Ártico del medievo
La fonte nascosta: inventio e dissonanza tra Paulhan, Desnos e Hopper
Proyecciones de la inventio en la literatura fragmentaria de Nélida Piñon
Imitatio and Inventio. How to Construct Meaning in Early Modern Emblems
Inventio e invenção na sátira atribuída a Gregório de Matos: o caso retórico e o caso Augusto de Campos
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕Inventio Sanctae CrvcisAlfred Holder · 1889
The finding of the True CrossH. J. W. Drijvers, Jan Willem Drijvers · 1997- 📕Il vescovo e l'antiquarioGiorgio Mangani · 2016
UUelcome Editions©Link Starbureiy · 2011
UUelcome Matte©Link Starbureiy · 2010
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🔗 Related topics
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