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This Book Begins By Noting Some Of The Diverse Ways In Which The Term Rhetoric Is Currently Used And Shows Some Of The Relationships Between These Uses. The Chapters Which Follow Seek To Elucidate These Relationships By Means Of The Fortunes Of Rhetoric. From A Study Of The Rise And Development Of Rhetorical Theory And Practice In Greek And Roman Times, The Book Goes On To Survey The Impact Of Rhetoric On Literature (chiefly English Literature) Down To The Present Day, Paying Particular Attention To The Importance Of Rhetoric In Education, And To The Rhetorical Aspects Of Elizabethan And Seventeenth Century Literature. Some Account Is Taken Of The Hostility To Rhetoric Which Began To Gather Force From About 1660 Onwards ; The Final Chapter Indicates Some Of The Ways In Which The Study Of Rhetoric Has Recently Been Revived And Remodeled, And Its Bearings On The Practice And Theory Of Literary Criticism. Distributed In The U.s.a. By Barnes & Noble. Bibliography: P. [78]-85.

Author

Dixon, Peter, 1932-

Publisher

London, Methuen

Published

1971

Language

EN

ISBN

9780416667608

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities

Updated

2026-03-24