Back in print after 17 years, this is a concise history of rhetoric as it relates to structure, genre, and style, with special reference to English literature and literary criticism from Ancient Greece to the end of the 18th century.
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Brian Vickers has provided what has been missing all along, a just, evenhanded, and comprehensive treatment of this subject. . . .Vickers manages neither to despise rhetoric nor to claim too much for it as an aid to our understanding." — Russell M. Brown, Renaissance and Reformation
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780809314966
Publisert
1989-08-21
Utgiver
Vendor
Southern Illinois University Press
Vekt
249 gr
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
200

Forfatter

Biographical note

Brian Vickers is the author of Francis Bacon and Renaissance Prose, The Artistry of Shakespeare’s Prose, In Defence of Rhetoric, Towards Greek Tragedy, and Shakespeare: "Coriolanus".