Rhetoric : the wit of persuasion
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Rhetoric : the wit of persuasion
（The language library）
B. Blackwell, 1992
- : pbk
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University of Tsukuba Library, Library on Library and Information Science
: pbk801.6:N-55931004280
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Bibliography: p. [229]-234
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
To some people "rhetoric" suggests empty verbiage; to others, a clever way of telling lies; or even a baffling sturggle with Graeco-Roman names for complicated verbal devices. This book seeks to dispel the unfavourable notions associated with the term "rhetoric", and to replace them with a view of rhetoric as a form of wit, a psychological instrument, an aesthetic pleasure, a framework for argument, and above all as a technique informing not only the complex patterns of literary art but also the conduct of everyday transactions.
Table of Contents
- "If I might claim your attention for a moment"
- rhetoric as emotion
- rhetoric as distraction
- images of argument
- figures of speech, facts of language
- patterns of writing, processes of art
- the humours of rhetoric
- the defences of rhetoric.
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