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Author: Daniel Shore
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-07-30
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 1107021502
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book argues that Milton used innovative and cunning means to persuade readers in an age distrustful of traditional rhetoric.
Author: Thomas Wilson
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Published: 1562
Total Pages: 226
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sister Miriam Joseph
Publisher: Paul Dry Books
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 1589882733
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book involves understanding the nature and function or language.
Author: David Parry
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2021-12-30
Total Pages: 375
ISBN-13: 1350165166
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis rhetorical study of the persuasive practice of English Puritan preachers and writers demonstrates how they appeal to both reason and imagination in order to persuade their hearers and readers towards conversion, assurance of salvation and godly living. Examining works from a diverse range of preacher-writers such as William Perkins, Richard Sibbes, Richard Baxter and John Bunyan, this book maps out continuities and contrasts in the theory and practice of persuasion. Tracing the emergence of Puritan allegory as an alternative, imaginative mode of rhetoric, it sheds new light on the paradoxical question of how allegories such as John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress came to be among the most significant contributions of Puritanism to the English literary canon, despite the suspicions of allegory and imagination that were endemic in Puritan culture. Concluding with reflections on how Milton deploys similar strategies to persuade his readers towards his idiosyncratic brand of godly faith, this book makes an original contribution to current scholarly conversations around the textual culture of Puritanism, the history of rhetoric, and the rhetorical character of theology.
Author: John Milton
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Published: 1915
Total Pages: 68
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Paddy Bullard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-04-21
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 1139495690
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEdmund Burke ranks among the most accomplished orators ever to debate in the British Parliament. But often his eloquence has been seen to compromise his achievements as a political thinker. In the first full-length account of Burke's rhetoric, Bullard argues that Burke's ideas about civil society, and particularly about the process of political deliberation, are, for better or worse, shaped by the expressiveness of his language. Above all, Burke's eloquence is designed to express ethos or character. This rhetorical imperative is itself informed by Burke's argument that the competency of every political system can be judged by the ethical knowledge that the governors have of both the people that they govern and of themselves. Bullard finds the intellectual roots of Burke's 'rhetoric of character' in early modern moral and aesthetic philosophy, and traces its development through Burke's parliamentary career to its culmination in his masterpiece, Reflections on the Revolution in France.
Author: Aristotle
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2005-01-27
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 0141910666
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith the emergence of democracy in the city-state of Athens in the years around 460 BC, public speaking became an essential skill for politicians in the Assemblies and Councils - and even for ordinary citizens in the courts of law. In response, the technique of rhetoric rapidly developed, bringing virtuoso performances and a host of practical manuals for the layman. While many of these were little more than collections of debaters' tricks, the Art of Rhetoric held a far deeper purpose. Here Aristotle (384-322 BC) establishes the methods of informal reasoning, provides the first aesthetic evaluation of prose style and offers detailed observations on character and the emotions. Hugely influential upon later Western culture, the Art of Rhetoric is a fascinating consideration of the force of persuasion and sophistry, and a compelling guide to the principles behind oratorical skill.
Author: John Milton
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Published: 1889
Total Pages: 106
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Helen Lynch
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-22
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 1317095952
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing Hannah Arendt’s account of the Greek polis to explain Milton’s fascination with the idea of public speech, this study reveals what is distinctive about his conception of a godly, republican oratory and poetics. The book shows how Milton uses rhetorical theory - its ideas, techniques and image patterns - to dramatise the struggle between ’good’ and ’bad’ oratory, and to fashion his own model of divinely inspired public utterance. Connecting his polemical and imaginative writing in new ways, the book discusses the subliminal rhetoric at work in Milton’s political prose and the systematic scrutiny of the power of oratory in his major poetry. By setting Milton in the context of other Civil War polemicists, of classical political theory and its early modern reinterpretations, and of Renaissance writing on rhetoric and poetic language, the book sheds new light on his work across several genres, culminating in an extended Arendtian reading of his ’Greek’ drama Samson Agonistes.
Author: Will Pallister
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2008-01-01
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 0802098355
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWilliam Pallister analyses the rhetorical methods that Milton uses throughout the poem and examines the effects of the three distinct rhetorical registers observed in each of the poem's major settings.
