Selected essays on rhetoric / / edited by Frederick Burwick ; foreword by David Potter
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Carbondale, Ill., : Southern Illinois University Press, c2010 |
| Edizione: | Paperback ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (323 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 808 |
| Soggetto topico: | Rhetoric |
| Altri autori: |
BurwickFrederick
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| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Selected essays on rhetoric |
| ISBN: | 1-280-69721-0 |
| 9786613674173 | |
| 0-8093-8605-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910807662503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Landmarks in rhetoric and public address.