Прижизненное издание.
Лондон, 1806 год. Издание Cadell & Davies.
Владельческий переплет, корешок надорван, незначительный износ по краям страниц, также имеется деформация страниц и обложки от влаги.
Сохранность хорошая.
Austin observed that British orators were skilled in the first four divisions of rhetoric: inventio, dispositio, elocutio, and memoria. However, the fifth division, pronuntiatio or delivery, was all but ignored. Delivery, which is often improperly referred to as elocution (elocutio), concerns the use of voice and gesture in an oration. Rather than study the art of delivery, orators trusted to the inspiration of the moment to guide their voices and gestures. Austin describes this as a reliance on "gestures imperfectly conceived...which will consequently be imperfectly executed"
Chironomia is a treatise on the importance of good delivery. Good delivery, Austin notes, can "conceal in some degree the blemishes of the composition, or the matter delivered, and...add lustre to its beauties" (187). In the first part of the book, Austin traces the study of the art of delivery from the classical world to the eighteenth century. The second part of the book is devoted to a description of the notation system Austin designed to teach students of rhetoric the management of gesture and voice. The system of notation is accompanied by a series of illustrations depicting positions of the feet, body, and hands.
Throughout Chironomia, Austin instructs speakers to avoid the appearance of vulgarity or rusticity. Austin first developed the system of notation described in Chironomia at his school for privileged young men. Austin"s goal was to prepare his students for a life in the church or politics by training them to become better orators. Although Austin"s system was eventually dismissed as too rigidly prescriptive, Chironomia was a highly influential book during the nineteenth century.
Издание не подлежит вывозу за пределы Российской Федерации. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Chironomia or a Treatise on Rhetorical Delivery (Gilbert Austin)