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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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa, Alabama :
The University Alabama Press,
1999.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; 1. Ghost in the Sphere; 2. The Ontic Logos, Predestination, and Aims of Probability; 3. The Place of the Opposition; 4. Sugaring of Rhetoric; 5. Prophets in a Howling Wilderness; 6. Arguments with Voices in the Wilderness; Notes; Works Cited; Index.