Novantiqua: Rhetorics as a Contemporary Theory"This is an important book: original, erudite, useful and ambitious." —Quarterly Journal of Speech |
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... passage in the Rhetoric where the reference to Gorgias is like a shaft of light cutting through the moralistic fog and the academic intellectualism . If taken at face value it is , like many other passages in this work , deceptively ...
... passage in the Rhetoric where the reference to Gorgias is like a shaft of light cutting through the moralistic fog and the academic intellectualism . If taken at face value it is , like many other passages in this work , deceptively ...
Page 231
... passage there is the clear - cut formal opposition of bíos and tóksa , an opposition which reappears later : 64 66 you stole the bow and arrows ( tà tóks ' ) ... ” ( 1272 ) ... you who having grabbed it with tricks stole my life ( tòn ...
... passage there is the clear - cut formal opposition of bíos and tóksa , an opposition which reappears later : 64 66 you stole the bow and arrows ( tà tóks ' ) ... ” ( 1272 ) ... you who having grabbed it with tricks stole my life ( tòn ...
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... passage , see Rat 1962 : 656 [ Essais 2. 12 ] ) . Just one quibble : " weigh all , and complaine of reason " is a rather misleading transla- tion of the original : " poisent tout , et le ramenent à la raison ” —but Florio might have ...
... passage , see Rat 1962 : 656 [ Essais 2. 12 ] ) . Just one quibble : " weigh all , and complaine of reason " is a rather misleading transla- tion of the original : " poisent tout , et le ramenent à la raison ” —but Florio might have ...
Contents
The Commonplace as the Common Place | 19 |
Rhetoric Ideology and Dialectic | 61 |
The Structure of the Rheme | 145 |
Copyright | |
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