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A companion to rhetoric and rhetorical criticism /
The essays in "A Companion to Rhetoric and Rhetorical Criticism" explore rhetoric as a practical art of deliberation and judgment, best taught and learned through concrete examples of argument, interpretation, and criticism. Even those well advanced in the study of rhetoric recognize that...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Malden, MA :
Blackwell Publishing Ltd.,
2007.
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| Colección: | Blackwell companions to literature and culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The essays in "A Companion to Rhetoric and Rhetorical Criticism" explore rhetoric as a practical art of deliberation and judgment, best taught and learned through concrete examples of argument, interpretation, and criticism. Even those well advanced in the study of rhetoric recognize that learning and mastering rhetoric requires engaging concrete texts in their specific, situated contexts. The various abilities of the good rhetorician - being able to invent terms, construct arguments, criticize faulty interpretations, and generally judge matters not susceptible to algorithmic rules--cannot be developed merely by being talked about; they must be actively undertaken in practice, by beginner and adept alike. A collection, therefore, in which concrete practice grounds and guides theorizing offers to initiates, as well as to advanced scholars, not only an account of what ''rhetoric'' is in the abstract, but also, more importantly, concrete experiences in rhetorical thinking across many of the disciplines in which it operates. Essays in this collection face the challenging problems of recent developments in rhetoric, including important reinterpretations of its history, and meditate on rhetoric's place in past cultures. All of the authors take pains to include practical examples of how to "think like a rhetorician." |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xviii, 522 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes chapter notes and bibliographical references at chapter ends, and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780470999844 0470999845 1282349759 9781282349759 |