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Rhetoric, Romance, and Technology : Studies in the Interaction of Expression and Culture.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1971Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (363 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801466335
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Rhetoric, Romance, and TechnologyDDC classification:
  • 808/.008
LOC classification:
  • PN4061
Online resources:
Contents:
Rhetoric, Romance, and Technology -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Rhetoric and the Origins of Consciousness -- 2. Oral Residue in Tudor Prose Style -- 3. Tudor Writings on Rhetoric, Poetic, and Literary Theory -- 4. Memory as Art -- 5. Latin Language Study as a Renaissance Puberty Rite -- 6. Ramist Classroom Procedure and the Nature of Reality -- 7. Ramist Method and the Commercial Mind -- 8. Swift on the Mind: Satire in a Closed Field -- 9. Psyche and the Geometers: Associationist Critical Theory -- 10. J. S. Mill's Pariah Poet -- 11. Romantic Difference and the Poetics of Technology -- 12. The Literate Orality of Popular Culture Today -- 13. Crisis and Understanding in the Humanities -- Index.
Summary: This is not a book on rhetoric in any narrow sense, but rather concerns its general ambiance and also some of its quite specific manifestations. The thirteen chapters that comprise the book move chronologically from the Renaissance up to the present time.
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Rhetoric, Romance, and Technology -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Rhetoric and the Origins of Consciousness -- 2. Oral Residue in Tudor Prose Style -- 3. Tudor Writings on Rhetoric, Poetic, and Literary Theory -- 4. Memory as Art -- 5. Latin Language Study as a Renaissance Puberty Rite -- 6. Ramist Classroom Procedure and the Nature of Reality -- 7. Ramist Method and the Commercial Mind -- 8. Swift on the Mind: Satire in a Closed Field -- 9. Psyche and the Geometers: Associationist Critical Theory -- 10. J. S. Mill's Pariah Poet -- 11. Romantic Difference and the Poetics of Technology -- 12. The Literate Orality of Popular Culture Today -- 13. Crisis and Understanding in the Humanities -- Index.

This is not a book on rhetoric in any narrow sense, but rather concerns its general ambiance and also some of its quite specific manifestations. The thirteen chapters that comprise the book move chronologically from the Renaissance up to the present time.

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