Renaissance Debates on Rhetoric - Couverture souple

 
9780801482069: Renaissance Debates on Rhetoric
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ISBN 10 : 0801482062 ISBN 13 : 9780801482069
Editeur : Cornell University Press, 1999

Synopsis

Throughout the European Renaissance, authors famous and obscure debated the nature, goals, and value of rhetoric. In a host of treatises, handbooks, letters, and orations, written in both Latin and the vernacular, they attempted to assess the central role that rhetoric clearly played in their culture. Was rhetoric a valuable tool of legitimation for rulers or a dangerous instrument of resistance to political and religious authority? Would its employment maintain the social hierarchy or foster social mobility? Was rhetoric merely the art of lies or was it a means to arrive at the only form of truth available to human beings? In this fascinating volume, Wayne A. Rebhorn enables modern-day readers to follow Renaissance thinkers as they struggle with these and other crucial questions about rhetoric.

Arranged chronologically, the twenty-five selections in this anthology, most of which have never before appeared in English, include key texts by Petrarch, Valla, Erasmus, Vives, Melanchthon, Ramus, Wilson, Amyot, and Bacon. All the selections have been fully annotated and have headnotes providing essential background information. In addition, the volume features a biographical glossary of frequently mentioned historical and mythological figures, a comprehensive index, and a detailed bibliography.

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À propos de l'auteur

Wayne A. Rebhorn is Celanese Centennial Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of several books, including The Emperor of Men's Minds: Literature and the Renaissance Discourse of Rhetoric, also from Cornell.

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Éditeur
Cornell University Press
Date d'édition
1999
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0801482062
ISBN 13 
9780801482069
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
336
Éditeur
Rebhorn Wayne A.
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  0801430089 ISBN 13 :  9780801430084
Editeur : Cornell University Press, 1999
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