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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Roberts-Miller, Patricia, 1959-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: 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.