Novantiqua: Rhetorics as a Contemporary Theory

by Paolo Valesio

"This is an important book: original, erudite, useful and ambitious." --Quarterly Journal of Speech

"A remarkable book . . . sure to be of lasting interest . . . to be reckoned with by all rhetorical theorists." --Choice

This is the first contemporary attempt at a holistic theory of rhetoric, well grounded in the context of cultural and social history. Arguing that rhetoric has always been an independent, objective, essential factor...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253110556
• ISBN13: 9780253110558
• Release Date: November 1980
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher