The mature writer is recognized ... by his ability to create a flow of sentences, a pattern of thought that is produced, one suspects, according to the principles of yet another kind of grammara grammar, let us say, of passages. Mina Shaughnessy

Richard M. Coe has developed such a grammar, one which uses a simple graphic instrument to analyze the meaningful relationships between sentences in a passage and to clarify the function of structure in discourse. Working in the tradition of Christensen s generative rhetoric, Coe presents a two-dimensional graphic matrix that effectively...

Makes accessible to modern readers the 17th-century rhetorics of Thomas Hobbes (15881677) and Bernard Lamy (16401715)

Hobbes "A Briefe of the Art "of "Rhetorique, "the first English translation of Aristotle s rhetoric, reflects Hobbes sense of rhetoric as a central instrument of self-defense in an increasingly fractious Commonwealth. In its approach to rhetoric, which Hobbes defines as that Faculty by which wee understand what will serve our turne, concerning any subject, to winne beliefe in the hearer, the "Briefe "looks forward to Hobbes great political works "De Cive "and...

Direct, comprehensive, well organized, simple in statement, "Elements of Rhetoric" is in all respects well fitted to fulfill its assigned role as a textbook. The remarks on practical problems and the examples and analogies confirm contemporary reports that Whately was himself a talented and stimulating teacher.

The modern field of speech was born near the beginning of the twentieth century, some seventy years after Whately wrote. But influential leaders in the new field endorsed Whately s judgments, and courses and textbooks in public address have remained strongly influenced by his...

The five essays presented here "Rhetoric," "Style," "Language," "Conversation," and "Greek Literature" were published together for the first time in "The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey" in 1889 1890. Frederick Burwick brings the essays together again in this volume, introducing them by tracing the sources and development of a belletristic theory of rhetoric, which he says is one of the most original, and for a few critics, the most puzzling of the nineteenth century. Burwick makes the edition complete with a comprehensive index and a selected bibliography."

Bitzer provides a more complete review and assessment of Campbell s work, giving particular emphasis to Campbell s theological views, which he demonstrates played an important part in Campbell s overall view of reasoning, feeling, and moral and religious truth.

The "Rhetoric "is widely regarded as the most important statement of a theory of rhetoric produced in the 18th century. Its importance lies, in part, in the fact that the theory is informed by the...