The Sixth Canon: Belletristic Rhetorical Theory and Its French Antecedents
(Part of the Studies in Rhetoric & Communication Series)
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In the eighteenth century, Scottish rhetoricians Hugh Blair, Adam Smith, and George Campbell were intrigued more by the ways in which discourse appealed to an audience's taste and sense of propriety than by its reasoning. To explore the rhetorical dimensions of aesthetic influence, Blair, Smith, and Campbell looked to seventeenth-century views of beauty, novelty, and "the Sublime." In The Sixth Canon, Barbara Warnick explains how the influence...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0872498921
ISBN13:9780872498921
Release Date:October 1993
Publisher:University of South Carolina Press
Length:176 Pages
Weight:1.15 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.2" x 9.1"
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