| 释义 |
‖ occupatio Rhet.|ɒkjʊˈpeɪʃɪəʊ, -ˈpɑːtɪəʊ|
[L. (see occupation).]
= preterition 3.
1586[see paralipsis]. 1928C. S. Baldwin Medieval Rhetoric & Poetic x. 296 The rehearsal of all the conventionally appropriate loci of description at the funeral of Arcite (A2919–2966) sounds to modern ears impatient, if not sarcastic. But, after all, the whole long passage is the ‘colour’ occupatio (præteritio). The shorter occupatio in the Squire's Tale (F63–75) suggests sarcasm less by itself than in its connection with lines 32–40 and 401–408. 1933F. N. Robinson Compl. Wks. Chaucer 772/2 It should be added that the rhetorical figure here employed—the refusal to describe or narrate, technically known as ‘occupatio’—is very common with Chaucer. 1957C. Muscatine Chaucer & French Tradition vi. 177 Though Chaucer omits a great deal of the tale originally told by Boccaccio in the Teseida, he frequently resorts to the rhetorical device of occupatio to summarize in detail events or descriptions in such a way as to shorten the story without lessening weight and impressiveness. 1968J. A. W. Bennett Chaucer's Bk. of Fame ii. 94 But the didactic bird is not to be thwarted utterly, and launches..into an occupatio summarizing the lore in Ovid's Fasti that would have enabled the poet to identify such constellations as Lyra, Gemini, and the Pleiades. 1975Times Lit. Suppl. 28 Feb. 213/4 ‘Do not describe the total horror, the full degree of despair that rushes into your head, your brain and emotions...’, and so on. The device used to be known as occupatio. |