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Thomas de Quincey : British rhetoric's romantic turn /
This wide-ranging volume gives proper attention to the views on rhetoric and style set forth by British literary figure Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859), whose contributions to the history of rhetoric are often overlooked. Lois Peters Agnew presents an overview of this theorist's life and provides...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Carbondale :
Southern Illinois University Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | SUNY series, rhetoric in the modern era.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This wide-ranging volume gives proper attention to the views on rhetoric and style set forth by British literary figure Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859), whose contributions to the history of rhetoric are often overlooked. Lois Peters Agnew presents an overview of this theorist's life and provides cultural context for his time and place, with particular emphasis on the significance of his rhetoric as both an alternative strain of rhetorical history and a previously unrealized example of rhetoric's transformation in nineteenth-century Britain. Agnew presents an extensive discuss. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 165 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-155) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780809331499 0809331497 9781283739481 1283739488 |