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.
| ISBN: | 9780198117919 |
| Publication date: | 24th August 1989 |
| 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 |