Novels and Arguments: Inventing Rhetorical Criticism

by Zahava K. McKeon

In this absorbing study--the first comprehensive exploration of the rhetoric of the novel--Zahava Karl McKeon investigates the complex interrelations of critical poetics, grammars, dialectics, and rhetorics to devise a systematic means of dealing with the structure of prose works as communicative objects. Using the vocabulary and conceptual resources of Aristotle and Cicero, she pursues this exploration to discover the kinds of arguments that characterize...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226560341
• ISBN13: 9780226560342
• Release Date: September 1982
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.4"