Rhetorical Theory by Women Before 1900: An AnthologyJane Donawerth Rowman & Littlefield, 2002 - 337 pages This anthology is the first to feature women's rhetorical theory from the fifth through the nineteenth centuries. Assembling selections on rhetoric, composition, and communication by 24 women around the world, this valuable collection demonstrates an often-overlooked history of rhetoric as well as women's interest in conversation as a model for all discourse. Among the theorists included are Aspasia, Pan Chao, Sei Shonagon, Madeleine de ScudZry, Hannah More, Hallie Quinn Brown, and Mary Augusta Jordan. The book also contains an extensive introduction, explanatory headnotes, and detailed annotations. |
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... reader's mind may easily open and enlarge them . And if this can be done with facility , we are perspicuous as well as strong ; if with difficulty or not at all , we're then perplexed and obscure writers . Scarce anything conduces more ...
... reader's mind may easily open and enlarge them . And if this can be done with facility , we are perspicuous as well as strong ; if with difficulty or not at all , we're then perplexed and obscure writers . Scarce anything conduces more ...
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... reader has not power to play at will upon the chords of the popular heart . Elocution embraces many of the elements of music . To it belong as truly harmony , rhythm , cadence , swell , pitch , volume , etc. , as to music itself . The ...
... reader has not power to play at will upon the chords of the popular heart . Elocution embraces many of the elements of music . To it belong as truly harmony , rhythm , cadence , swell , pitch , volume , etc. , as to music itself . The ...
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... reader's taste and character , and just so much revelation of the writer's self and interests as shall really serve the reader's . At no time in the history of human intercourse has the letter been forced to carry itself so adroitly ...
... reader's taste and character , and just so much revelation of the writer's self and interests as shall really serve the reader's . At no time in the history of human intercourse has the letter been forced to carry itself so adroitly ...
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Aspasia fifth century B C E | 1 |
Pan Chao c 48117 | 14 |
Sei Shonagon b 965? | 22 |
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References to this book
The SAGE Handbook of Rhetorical Studies Andrea A. Lunsford,Kirt H. Wilson,Rosa A. Eberly No preview available - 2009 |