John Donne and the Rhetorics of Renaissance Discourse - Hardcover

Baumlin, James S.

 
9780826207685: John Donne and the Rhetorics of Renaissance Discourse

Synopsis

Examining Donne's poetry and his increasingly sophisticated use of rhetoric, Baumlin argues that there are four distinct theories of historical rhetoric - the incarnational, the transcendental, the sceptical and the sophistic - which foster four distinct theories of reading.

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