Trust in texts : a different history of rhetoric / / Susan Miller
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| Autore: |
Miller Susan <1942-2013.>
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| Titolo: |
Trust in texts : a different history of rhetoric / / Susan Miller
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| Pubblicazione: | Carbondale : , : Southern Illinois University Press, , [2008] |
| ©2008 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (222 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 808.009 |
| Soggetto topico: | Rhetoric - History |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-187) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction : rhetoric, emotion, and places of persuasion. Rhetorics, pedagogies, and methods. Topics : simultaneous and consecutive. The trouble with emotion, and rhetoric. Emotional educations. The trouble with rhetoric, and emotion -- Decentering rhetoric. Reviewing rhetoric. Everyone knows : antique characters. Everyone knew : rhetoric as its precedents -- Trusting texts. Trusting printing. Trusting rhetoric. "Sincerely, and prudently, yours" -- The mobility of trust. Literature, "literature," and rhetorical truths. Rhetorical rhetoric and literary truth. The communicative essence of language : pure British tongues. The turn to words. The ends of trust -- Conclusion : centering rhetoric--the psychology of anxious moments and solemn occasions. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Trust in Texts: A Different History of Rhetoric challenges the accepted idea of a singular rhetorical tradition poorly maintained from the Athenian Golden Age until the present. Author Susan Miller argues that oratorical rhetoric is but one among many codes that guide the production of texts and proposes that emotion and trust are central to the motives and effects of rhetoric.This groundbreaking volume makes a case for historical rhetoric as disbursed, formal and informal lessons in persuasion that are codified as crafts that mediate between what is known and unknow |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Trust in texts |
| ISBN: | 0-8093-8767-0 |
| 1-4356-6353-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910454073003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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