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History of Renaissance Rhetoric 1380-1620
Peter Mack
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paperback. This is the first comprehensive history of renaissance rhetoric, an advanced training in the use of language to argue, persuade, and convey information, which was an essential component of renaissance culture, and discusses rhetorical training as well as the opinions on rhetoric of major scholars including Erasmus, Melanchthon, and Sturm. Series: Oxford-Warburg Studies. Num Pages: 360 pages, 2 black and white halftones. BIC Classification: CFG; HBLC; HBLH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 460. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
This is the first comprehensive History of Renaissance Rhetoric. Rhetoric, a training in writing and delivering speeches, was a fundamental part of renaissance culture and education. It is concerned with a wide range of issues, connected with style, argument, self-presentation, the arousal of emotion, voice and gesture. More than 3,500 works on rhetoric were published in a total of over 15,000 editions between 1460 and 1700. The renaissance was a great age of innovation in rhetorical theory. This book shows how renaissance scholars recovered and circulated classical rhetoric texts, how they absorbed new doctrines from Greek rhetoric, and how they ... Read more
This is the first comprehensive History of Renaissance Rhetoric. Rhetoric, a training in writing and delivering speeches, was a fundamental part of renaissance culture and education. It is concerned with a wide range of issues, connected with style, argument, self-presentation, the arousal of emotion, voice and gesture. More than 3,500 works on rhetoric were published in a total of over 15,000 editions between 1460 and 1700. The renaissance was a great age of innovation in rhetorical theory. This book shows how renaissance scholars recovered and circulated classical rhetoric texts, how they absorbed new doctrines from Greek rhetoric, and how they ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
Series
Oxford-Warburg Studies
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199679997
SKU
KSG0032752
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Reviews for History of Renaissance Rhetoric 1380-1620
In A History of Renaissance Rhetoric 13801620 Mack makes those important Latin Renaissance rhetoric manuals visible, in the process bringing to our attention some important works in the history of rhetoric ... Peter Mack has done more than anyone to make this important literature available and accessible for our age.
Arthur E. Walzer, Rhetoric Society Quarterly
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Arthur E. Walzer, Rhetoric Society Quarterly
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