A history of Renaissance rhetoric, 1380-1620 /

This is the first comprehensive History of Renaissance Rhetoric. Rhetoric, a training in writing and delivering speeches, was a fundamental part of renaissance culture and education. It is concerned with a wide range of issues, connected with style, argument, self-presentation, the arousal of emotio...

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Gespeichert in:
1. Verfasser:
Mack, Peter
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Zusammenfassung:
This is the first comprehensive History of Renaissance Rhetoric. Rhetoric, a training in writing and delivering speeches, was a fundamental part of renaissance culture and education. It is concerned with a wide range of issues, connected with style, argument, self-presentation, the arousal of emotion, voice and gesture. More than 3,500 works on rhetoric were published in a total of over 15,000 editions between 1460 and 1700. The renaissance was a great age of innovation inrhetorical theory. This book shows how renaissance scholars recovered and circulated classical rhetoric texts, how they abs
Umfang:
1 online resource (356 p.)
Anmerkungen:
Description based upon print version of record.
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English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [319]-328) and index.
ISBN:
0-19-180458-4
0-19-161904-3
Schlagworte:
Rhetoric, Renaissance > History.
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