Rhetoric and the Familiar in Francis Bacon and John Donne
«This is an ambitious and wide-randing first book. In it, Daniel Derrin examines the rhetorical practices of Francis Bacon and John Donne. ... Any student of Bacon, Donne, or Renaissance rhetoric could turn to this book with profit.»
Renaissance Quarterly
Rhetoric and the Familiar examines the writing and oratory of Francis Bacon and John Donne from the perspective of the faculty psychology they both inherited. Both writers inherited the resources of the classical rhetorical tradition through their university education. Les mer
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The book argues that their rhetorical practices reflect a common appropriation of ideas about mental process from faculty psychology, and that they deploy it in divergent ways depending on their rhetorical contexts. It demonstrates the vital importance, in early modern thinking about rhetoric, of considering what familiar remembered material will occur to a given audience, how that differs according to context, and the problems the familiar entails.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781611476033
- Utgivelsesår
- 2013
- Format
- 24 x 16 cm
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«This is an ambitious and wide-randing first book. In it, Daniel Derrin examines the rhetorical practices of Francis Bacon and John Donne. ... Any student of Bacon, Donne, or Renaissance rhetoric could turn to this book with profit.»
Renaissance Quarterly