Rhetorical Questions: Studies of Public Discourse - Edwin Black - Books - The University of Chicago Press - 9780226055015 - April 15, 1992
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From classical antiquity through the Renaissance, rhetoric was the prime vehicle of education in the West and the discipline that prepared students for civic life. With a comprehensiveness drawn from this tradition, Edwin Black here probes the incongruities between form and substance that open public discourse to significant interpretation. 

Locating rhetorical studies at the confluence of literature and politics, Black focuses on the ideological component of seemingly literary texts and the use of literary devices to advance political advocacy. The essays collected here range in subject matter from nineteenth-century oratory to New York Times editorials to the rhetoric of Richard Nixon. Unifying the collection are the concerns of secrecy and disclosure, identity, opposition, the scope of argument in public persuasion, and the historical mutability of rhetorical forms.

220 pages

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Released April 15, 1992
ISBN13 9780226055015
Publishers The University of Chicago Press
Pages 220
Dimensions 150 × 220 × 20 mm   ·   425 g
Language English  

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