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An Outline Of Classical Rhetoric -- Rhetoric And Life -- The Major Texts -- The Main Processes Of Rhetoric -- The Three Genres -- The Stages Of Composition -- The Parts Of A Speech -- The Orator's Three Duties -- The Three Styles -- Plato's Attack On Rhetoric -- Territorial Disputes: Philosophy Versus Rhetoric -- Responses To Plato -- The Triumph Of Rhetoric -- The Revenge Of Philosophy -- Medieval Fragmentation -- Renaissance Reintegration -- The Expressive Function Of Rhetorical Figures -- Rhetoric And The Sister Arts -- Rhetoric And The Modern Novel -- Epilogue: The Future Of Rhetoric. Brian Vickers. Includes Indexes. Bibliography: P. [481]-490.

Author

Brian Vickers

Publisher

Oxford: Clarendon Press ; New York: Oxford University Press

Published

1988

Language

EN

ISBN

9780191671128

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities