Edmund Burke and the Art of Rhetoric

ISBN-13: 9781107006577 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 284 str.

Paddy Bullard

Opis

The first comprehensive, contextual account of Edmund Burke's techniques of political discourse, tracing the ideas behind his 'rhetoric of character'.

Recenzje

'A fresh and immediately illuminating thesis.' Times Literary Supplement

Spis treści

Introduction: Burke, rhetoric and ethics; 1. The ethical turn in early modern rhetoric, 1600–1760; 2. Rhetoric in Ireland, 1693–1765; 3. The Epicurean aesthetics of Burke's Philosophical Enquiry; 4. Episodes in the evolution of Burke's eloquence; 5. Reflections on the Revolution in France and the rhetoric of character; 6. Burke, Rousseau and the purchase of eloquence; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.