Audience, Words, and Art: Studies in Seventeenth-Century French Rhetoric

by Hugh M. Davidson and Hugh McCullough Davidson

Book Overview

In the six studies which make up this volume, Mr. Davidson has sought to do four things: (1) to recover the crucial steps in the attempt to reconstitute rhetoric as a discipline for France and the French language in the seventeenth century; (2) to analyze the opposition to that attempt, as it appears in the Logique of Port-Royal; (3) to show how Pascal, starting from principles like those of the Port-Royalists, invented an art of persuasion...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814253172
• ISBN13: 9780814253175
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"