Writing Instruction in Nineteenth-Century American Colleges (Studies in Writing and Rhetoric) - Softcover

Berlin, James A

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0809311666 ISBN 13: 9780809311668

Verlag: Southern Illinois University Press, 1984

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Book by Berlin Professor James A

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Defining a rhetoric as a social invention arising out of a particular time, place, and set of circumstances, Berlin notes that ?no rhetoric?not Plato’s or Aris­totle’s or Quintilian’s or Perelman’s?is permanent.” At any given time several rhetorics vie for supremacy, with each attracting adherents representing vari­ous views of reality expressed through a rhetoric.

Traditionally rhetoric has been seen as based on four interacting elements: ?re­ality, writer or speaker, audience, and language.” As emphasis shifts from one element to another, or as the interaction between elements changes, or as the def­initions of the elements change, rhetoric changes. This alters prevailing views on such important questions as what is ap­pearance, what is reality.

In this interpretive study Berlin classi­fies the three 19th-century rhetorics as classical, psychological-epistemological, and romantic, a uniquely American development growing out of the transcen­dental movement. In each case studying the rhetoric provides insight into society and the beliefs of the people.

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James A. Berlin teaches in the English department at the University of Cincinnati.

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• Verlag: Southern Illinois University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0809311666
• ISBN 13: 9780809311668
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 114