In Defence of Rhetoric

£75.00

ISBN:

9780198117919

Publication Date:

24 Aug 1989

Language:

English

Publisher:

Oxford University Press

Imprint:

Clarendon Press

Pages:

516 pages

Format:

Paperback

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Estimated despatch 28 May - 2 Jun 2024

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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.

List of Illustrations 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

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In Defence of Rhetoric

Paperback by Vickers, Brian (Professor of English and Renaissance Literature, Professor of English and Renaissance Literature, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich; founding President of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric)

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