About this title: Addressing contemporary views of rhetoric, this text reconstructs the past to reconnect rhetoric with the invention of discourse. Sloane reveals the contrarianism at the heart of traditional rhetorical invention, in which both, or all sides of a question must be given a fair hearing.
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Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press,, Washington D.C. :
Date Published: 1997.
ISBN-13:9780813208794ISBN:0813208793
Description: Prof. Schoeck's tidy ownership information, else fine, clean & tight condition / fine dust jacket. From the library of Prof. Richard J. Schoeck. 340pp. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Washington D.C. The Catholic University of America Press
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780813208794ISBN:0813208793
Description: Hardback, with dustwrapper. In almost as new condition. ISBN 0813208793 [From the cover] “This book addresses contemporary views of rhetoric, of its history, and of its impoverished protocol. But its major focus is on reconstructing the past through centering on three documents in particular: Cicero's De oratore (55 BC), Erasmus' De copia (1534), and Thomas Wilson's Discourse on Usury (1572). These often misread works, among others, reveal the contrarianism at the heart of traditional ... read more
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