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The Rhetoric of Numbers in Gibbon's History.
Gibbon's History is one of the great master-narratives in the Western tradition. This book examines the ways in which Gibbon uses numbers: not only as historical evidence, for informational purposes, but to persuade (and sometimes to amuse), through the creation of a narrative voice that is at...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham :
University of Delaware,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Gibbon's History is one of the great master-narratives in the Western tradition. This book examines the ways in which Gibbon uses numbers: not only as historical evidence, for informational purposes, but to persuade (and sometimes to amuse), through the creation of a narrative voice that is at once authoritative and personal. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (225 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781611494174 1611494176 1611494168 9781611494167 |