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In Defence of Rhetoric Revised Edition
Contributor(s): Vickers, Brian (Author)

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 ISBN: 0198117914     ISBN-13: 9780198117919
Publisher: OUP Oxford
OUR PRICE: $95.00  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: October 1989
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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.
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BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Rhetoric
Dewey: 808
LCCN: 89009388
Lexile Measure: 1640(Not Available)
Physical Information: 1.5" H x 5.8" W x 8.88" L (1.78 lbs) 528 pages
 
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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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