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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807662503321

Autore

De Quincey Thomas <1785-1859.>

Titolo

Selected essays on rhetoric / / edited by Frederick Burwick ; foreword by David Potter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Carbondale, Ill., : Southern Illinois University Press, c2010

ISBN

1-280-69721-0

9786613674173

0-8093-8605-4

Edizione

[Paperback ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (323 p.)

Collana

Landmarks in rhetoric and public address

Altri autori (Persone)

BurwickFrederick

Disciplina

808

Soggetti

Rhetoric

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 1967.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction, by F. Burwick.--Rhetoric.--Style.--Language.--Conversation.--A brief appraisal of the Greek literature in its foremost pretensions.

Sommario/riassunto

The five essays presented here-Rhetoric, Style, Language, Conversation, and Greek Literature-were published together for the first time in The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey in 1889-1890. Frederick Burwick brings the essays together again in this volume, introducing them by tracing the sources and development of a belletristic theory of rhetoric, which he says "is one of the most original, and for a few critics, the most puzzling of the nineteenth century." Burwick makes the edition complete with a comprehensive index and a selected