Voices in the wilderness : public discourse and the paradox of Puritan rhetoric /
What has gone wrong with discourse and deliberation in the United States? It remains monologic, argues Patricia Roberts-Miller in Voices in the Wilderness, which traces America's dominant form of argumentation back to its roots in the rhetorical tradition of 17th-century American Puritans. A wo...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
©1999.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- Ghost in the sphere
- The ontic logos, predestination, and aims of probability
- The place of the opposition
- Sugaring of rhetoric
- Prophets in a howling wilderness
- Arguments with voices in the wilderness
- Notes
- Works cited
- Index.