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In Defence of Rhetoric

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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.

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ISBN: 9780198117919
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Author: Brian Professor of English and Renaissance Literature, Professor of English and Renaissance Literature, Swiss Federal Vickers
Publisher: Clarendon Press an imprint of Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 516 pages
Series: Clarendon Paperbacks
Genres: Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics
Literary studies: general