The rhetoric of numbers in Gibbon's History [[electronic resource] /] / F.P. Lock
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| Autore: |
Lock F. P
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| Titolo: |
The rhetoric of numbers in Gibbon's History [[electronic resource] /] / F.P. Lock
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| Pubblicazione: | Newark, : University of Delaware Press |
| Lanham, Md., : Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, c2012 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (225 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 824.6 |
| Soggetto topico: | Literature and history |
| Numbers in literature | |
| Symbolism of numbers in literature | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Rome History Empire, 284-476 Historiography |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Note on References; Preface; 1 Numbers; 2 Time; 3 Place; 4 Population; 5 War; 6 Religion; 7 Money; 8 Books; Index; About the Author |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Gibbon's History is one of the great master-narratives in the Western tradition. This book examines the ways in which Gibbon uses numbers: not only as historical evidence, for informational purposes, but to persuade (and sometimes to amuse), through the creation of a narrative voice that is at once authoritative and personal. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The rhetoric of numbers in Gibbon's History |
| ISBN: | 1-283-65875-5 |
| 1-61149-417-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910786336403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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