| In Defence of Rhetoric Revised Edition Contributor(s): Vickers, Brian (Author) |
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ISBN: 0198117914 ISBN-13: 9780198117919 Publisher: Clarendon Press OUR PRICE: $95.00 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 1989 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Rhetoric |
| Dewey: 808 |
| LCCN: 89009388 |
| Lexile Measure: 1640 |
| Physical Information: 1.5" H x 5.8" W x 8.88" (1.78 lbs) 516 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |