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But of course , even if literature is a province of rhetoric , not essentially of logic or dialectic , there is abundant ancient precedent for not absolving the rhetorician , however brilliant and resourceful he may be ...
But of course , even if literature is a province of rhetoric , not essentially of logic or dialectic , there is abundant ancient precedent for not absolving the rhetorician , however brilliant and resourceful he may be ...
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Another way of saying this is that if prosopopoeia is indeed a figure of rhetoric , then there is no way for us to use ... And if this is so , then our common practice of calling some usages ' rhetorical , as against others that aren't ...
Another way of saying this is that if prosopopoeia is indeed a figure of rhetoric , then there is no way for us to use ... And if this is so , then our common practice of calling some usages ' rhetorical , as against others that aren't ...
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It is therefore not only appropriate but necessary to point out , as J. V. Cunningham does for his purposes , that for Aristotle ' wonder ' is a concept which straddles the gap between logic and rhetoric , or , as we might say , between ...
It is therefore not only appropriate but necessary to point out , as J. V. Cunningham does for his purposes , that for Aristotle ' wonder ' is a concept which straddles the gap between logic and rhetoric , or , as we might say , between ...
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Contents
Chaucer and One Idea of Englishness 1972 | 7 |
A Reading of The Oceans Love to Cynthia 1960 | 13 |
Shakespeare and the Practising Poet Today 1976 | 31 |
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| Title | Older Masters: Essays and Reflections on English and American Literature G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series |
| Author | Donald Davie |
| Publisher | Carcanet, 1992 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Feb 29, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0856359793, 9780856359798 |
| Length | 328 pages |
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