• RecordNumber
    6890
  • Title

    In defence of rhetoric

  • Author Statement
    Brian Vickers
  • Publication
    New York : Oxford University Press , Oxford : Clarendon Press
  • Publication Year
    2002, ©1998
  • Collation
    xi, 508 pages : ill
  • Notes
    "A spirited effort to restore the importance of rhetoric, this book examines its early development in the classical era, its triumph during the Renaissance, an​d its subsequent decline. While acknowledging rhetoricʹs general loss of prestige, the author asserts its value in modern times as an indispensable vehicle for style an​d thought in the work of Joyce, Orwell, Jarrell, an​d others, an​d concludes by surveying Read more...
  • Subject

    Rhetoric

  • Main class
    808
  • Sub class
    .042
  • ISBN
    9780198117919