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Invention as a Social Act

The act of inventing relates to the process of inquiry, to creativity, to poetic and aesthetic invention. Building on the work of rhetoricians, philosophers, linguists, and theorists in other disciplines, Karen Burke LeFevre challenges a widely-held view of rhetorical invention as the act of an atom...

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Autor principal: LeFevre, Karen Burke
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 1986.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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  • Cover; Studies in Writing & Rhetoric Series; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword by Frank J. D'Angelo; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. A Platonic View of Rhetorical Invention; 3. Invention as a Social Act; 4. A Continuum of Social Perspectives on Invention; 5. The Role of Language: A Foundation for a Social Perspective on Invention; 6. Implications of a Social Perspective on Rhetorical Invention; Notes; Bibliography; Author Biography; Back Cover.