Style, December 22nd, 1997
This prospectus from the unpublished textbook An Introduction to Style in American Literature and Oratory contains excerpts from the introduction and the catalogue of literary terms. Some rhetors who have catalogued classical tropes and schemes have chosen their illustrations almost solely from Greek, Roman, or British sources; others demonstrate that rhetoric is still very much employed in our time by quoting various twentieth-century figures. The typical Arts undergraduate, however, might get the impression that rhetoric is something that concerned the ancients and the British but was...
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