In defence of rhetoric /
A spirited effort to restore the importance of rhetoric, this book examines its early development in the classical era, its triumph during the Renaissance, and its subsequent decline. While acknowledging rhetoric's general loss of prestige, the author asserts its value in modern times as an ind...
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| Format: | Government Document eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford : New York :
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
1988.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | A spirited effort to restore the importance of rhetoric, this book examines its early development in the classical era, its triumph during the Renaissance, and its subsequent decline. While acknowledging rhetoric's general loss of prestige, the author asserts its value in modern times as an indispensable vehicle for style and thought in the work of Joyce, Orwell, Jarrell, and others, and concludes by surveying rhetoric's fragmentation and misapplication in the current critical theories of such thinkers as Jakobson and de Man. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 508 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 481-490) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191671128 0191671126 |