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UNINA9910807662503321 |
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Autore |
De Quincey Thomas <1785-1859.> |
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Titolo |
Selected essays on rhetoric / / edited by Frederick Burwick ; foreword by David Potter |
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Carbondale, Ill., : Southern Illinois University Press, c2010 |
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1-280-69721-0 |
9786613674173 |
0-8093-8605-4 |
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Edizione |
[Paperback ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (323 p.) |
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Collana |
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Landmarks in rhetoric and public address |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Originally published: 1967. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction, by F. Burwick.--Rhetoric.--Style.--Language.--Conversation.--A brief appraisal of the Greek literature in its foremost pretensions. |
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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 |
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