Rhetorical Questions: Studies of Public Discourse

by Edwin Black

From classical antiquity through the Renaissance, rhetoric was the prime vehicle of education in the West and the discipline that prepared students for civic life. With a comprehensiveness drawn from this tradition, Edwin Black here probes the incongruities between form and substance that open public discourse to significant interpretation.

Locating rhetorical studies at the confluence of literature and politics, Black focuses on the ideological...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226055019
• ISBN13: 9780226055015
• Release Date: April 1992
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.8"