The Rhetoric of the Other Literature

by W. Ross Winterowd

Using traditional and contemporary rhetorical theory, Winterowd argues that the fiction-nonfiction division of literature is unjustified and destructive.

He would bridge the gap between literary scholars and rhetoricians by including both fiction (imaginative literature) and nonfiction (literature of fact) in the canon. The actual difference in literary texts, he notes, lies not in their factuality but in their potential for eliciting an...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809315874
• ISBN13: 9780809315871
• Release Date: March 1990
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"