The Establishment of Modern English Prose in the Reformation and the Enlightenment
Ian Robinson traces the legacy of prose writing as a form theorized and propagated as an art distinct from verse. Engaging with histories of rhetoric as well as the work of the great prose writers in English, Robinson provides a bold reappraisal of this literary form, and shows that the formal construct of the sentence itself is historically conditioned and no older than the post-medieval world. The relationship between rhetorical style and literary meaning, Robinson argues, is at the heart of the way we understand the external world.
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The Establishment of Modern English Prose in the Reformation and the Enlightenment
Ian Robinson traces the legacy of prose writing as a form theorized and propagated as an art distinct from verse. Engaging with histories of rhetoric as well as the work of the great prose writers in English, Robinson provides a bold reappraisal of this literary form, and shows that the formal construct of the sentence itself is historically conditioned and no older than the post-medieval world. The relationship between rhetorical style and literary meaning, Robinson argues, is at the heart of the way we understand the external world.
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780521480888 |
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| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publication date: | 12/03/1998 |
| Pages: | 236 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.34(w) x 9.29(h) x 0.79(d) |
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