In Defence of Rhetoric by Brian Vickers

In Defence of Rhetoric

Brian Vickers

528 pages first pub 1988 (editions)

nonfiction education challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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A spirited effort to restore the importance of rhetoric, this book examines its early development in the classical era, its triumph during the Renaissance, and its subsequent decline. While acknowledging rhetoric's general loss of prestige, the au...

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