The Rhetoric of Reason: Writing and the Attractions of Argument

by James R. Crosswhite

Overview

One of the most discussed and elusive female characters in the Russian literary tradition, Alexandr Pushkin's Tatiana Larina is the progenitor of an impressive list of heroines, ranging from Tolstoy's Anna Karenina to Pasternak's Lara Guishar in Doctor Zhivago. In this new study the author offers an exegesis of Pushkin's novel-in-verse, Eugene Onegin, that focuses systematically on Tatiana.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780299149543
Publisher:	University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date:	02/15/1996
Series:	Rhetoric of the Human Sciences
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	344
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

James Crosswhite, associate professor of English at the University of Oregon, holds a Ph.D. in philosophy and has directed writing programs at the University of California, San Diego, and the University of Oregon.  He has published many articles on rhetoric and argumentation.

Editorial Reviews

A work of art, conceptually and stylistically. What Crosswhite has attempted is quite remarkable. A major contribution.”—David Kaufer, Carnegie Mellon



“The Rhetoric of Reason will be a delight to hand my graduate students, many of whom have learned sophisticated objections to argumentative models of discourse.  The book meets these concerns in a creative way.  The teaching of effective writing must be a critical part of what we in the liberal arts do, and, of course, we should all be teaching good reasoning.”—John Lyne, University of Iowa, series editor

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