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Selected essays on rhetoric / edited by Frederick Burwick ; foreword by David Potter.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859.
- Series:
- Landmarks in rhetoric and public address.
- Landmarks in rhetoric and public address
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rhetoric.
- De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859. Selections.
- De Quincey, Thomas.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (323 p.)
- Edition:
- Paperback ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Carbondale, Ill. : Southern Illinois University Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The five essays presented here-Rhetoric, Style, Language, Conversation, and Greek Literature-were published together for the first time in The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey in 1889-1890. Frederick Burwick brings the essays together again in this volume, introducing them by tracing the sources and development of a belletristic theory of rhetoric, which he says "is one of the most original, and for a few critics, the most puzzling of the nineteenth century." Burwick makes the edition complete with a comprehensive index and a selected
- Contents:
- Introduction, by F. Burwick.
- Rhetoric.
- Style.
- Language.
- Conversation.
- A brief appraisal of the Greek literature in its foremost pretensions.
- Notes:
- Originally published: 1967.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-69721-0
- 9786613674173
- 0-8093-8605-4
- OCLC:
- 810039593
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