Brian (Professor of English and Renaissance Literature, Professor of English and Renaissance Literature, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich; founding President of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric) Vickers
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Brian (Professor of English and Renaissance Literature, Professor of English and Renaissance Literature, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich; founding President of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric) Vickers,
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Brian Vickers
e druk, 1989
9780198117919
In Defence of Rhetoric
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Paperback, 516 blz.
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Engels
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e druk, 1989
ISBN13: 9780198117919
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Clarendon Paperbacks
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Setting out to reinstate rhetoric, this book opens with an overview of the rhetorical system as developed in classical times. In Defence of Rhetoric surveys and analyses material from Aristotle to Plato through the Renaissance to the modern novel and the critical theories of Roman Jakobson and Paul de Man.
Specificaties
ISBN13:9780198117919
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Paperback
Aantal pagina's:516
Hoofdrubriek:Woordenboeken en taal
Serie:Clarendon Paperbacks
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References
1. An Outline of Classical Rhetoric
- Rhetoric and Life
- The Major Texts
- The Main Processes of Rhetoric
a) The Three Genres
b) The Stages of Composition
c) The Parts of a Speech
d) The Orator's Three Duties
e) The Three Styles
2. Plato's Attack on Rhetoric
3. Territorial Disputes: Philosophy versus Rhetoric
- Responses to Plato
- The Triumph of Rhetoric
- The Revenge of Philosophy
4. Medieval Fragmentation
5. Renaissance Reintegration
6. The Expressive Function of Rhetorical Figures
7. Rhetoric and the Sister Arts
8. Rhetoric in the Modern Novel
9. Epilogue: The Future of Rhetoric
Bibliography
Index
References
1. An Outline of Classical Rhetoric
- Rhetoric and Life
- The Major Texts
- The Main Processes of Rhetoric
a) The Three Genres
b) The Stages of Composition
c) The Parts of a Speech
d) The Orator's Three Duties
e) The Three Styles
2. Plato's Attack on Rhetoric
3. Territorial Disputes: Philosophy versus Rhetoric
- Responses to Plato
- The Triumph of Rhetoric
- The Revenge of Philosophy
4. Medieval Fragmentation
5. Renaissance Reintegration
6. The Expressive Function of Rhetorical Figures
7. Rhetoric and the Sister Arts
8. Rhetoric in the Modern Novel
9. Epilogue: The Future of Rhetoric
Bibliography
Index